Senior Staff Engineer

Position Summary 

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications.  You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. 
 

Position Description 

Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. 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. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source Observability, Data platform domain.  

 
Position Responsibilities 
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Focus on multiple areas and 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 Observability Engineering domain 
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions 
• 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 
• Willing to take on-call and operation support 

 
Qualifications 

• Hands-on experience in building complex distributed system to process large scale telemetry and architectures to support the scale and performance, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes 
• Advance knowledge of at least one OOP language such as Java, Go, Python, etc. 
• Understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Clickhouse, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc. Knowledge or Big data formats such as Parquet or Avro etc.  
• Experience in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions, Advanced data analytics using Open-Source technologies are a big plus. 
• Experience building distributed systems 
• Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis  
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production 
• Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code 
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches 
• Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log  
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment 
• Willing to work on both fast development and operation 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) 
• Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster 
• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus 
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches 
• 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) 
• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies  
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus 

Experience 

• 10+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems  
• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks 
• 8+ years of experience with architecture and design 
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center  

Education 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work