Principal Software Engineer - Platform Technology (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking an experienced Principal Software Development Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation and platform engineering domain modernization as we redefine experience for our customers.

Our Principal Software Development Engineer works with both our Distinguished and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead Strategy and Execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

This position will work in our Platform as a Service Engineering team and the ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source Database platform domain.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Principal Engineer, you will:

• Focus in a few key areas to provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain

• Accountable for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions

• Use deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes

• Be fluent in at least two OOP languages among Java, Go, python, C++, etc.

• Show good knowledge of two of the following languages: C, PHP, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, shell script, etc.

• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., and be familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch (Knowledge with NewSQL database like TIDB, Cockroach or YugabyteDB will be a plus)

• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans.

• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

• Be willing to take on-call and operation support

 

Qualifications:

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

• Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals

• Practical knowledge of working in Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe)

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)

• Experience on open-source database platforms with emphasis on building enterprise scale RDMS and NoSQL platforms

• Knowledge in big data and streaming data architecture (Lambda/Kappa),  K8 cluster and ETL pipeline

• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus

• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

 

Experience:

·       6+ years of professional software development experience

·       3+ years of experience with architecture and design

·       3+ years of experience in open source frameworks

·       4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

·       1+ years of people management experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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Annual Salary

$90,000.00 - $236,500.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the s