Staff Engineer – Reliability Engineering (HYBRID)

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineers and Sr.Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems.  As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at GEICO, you will tackle the unique challenges of operating at scale, leveraging expertise in coding and large-scale system design. You will also participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting and post-mortem analysis to improve system reliability and minimize operational impact.

Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide strategic and technical guidance
• Utilize programming languages like Go, Python, Java, .Net or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Work with container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (K8S), OpenStack and a variety of Azure tools and services.
• Architect and develop cloud-native applications using Azure Services.
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
• Ensure the quality, performance and usability of the engineering solutions
• Serve as a mentor and thought leader, coaching engineers and Influence and educate executives
• Drive best practices for platform reliability, disaster recovery, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Platform engineering, DevOps, SREs) to integrate, test, and improve platform reliability and performance.
• 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

• Experience in at least two modern programming languages (Go, Python, Java, .NET) and object-oriented design.
• Advance knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript is preferred 
• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with No-SQL databases like ONgDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) or large-scale private data center environments.
• Experience managing distributed systems in public, private or hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry).
• Passion for automation and reducing manual operations using tools like Terraform and Ansible.
• Familiarity with configuration management and orchestration tools like Helm, Puppet, Spinnaker.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code(IaC), and cloud-based deployments.
• 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)
• Ability to operate in fast-paced, high-scale environment with a problem-solving mindset.
• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies is a plus

Experience

• 6+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ 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 experience

 

Annual Salary

$110,000.00 - $230,000.00

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 selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to,