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
$115,000.00 - $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, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company:
At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers:
We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture:
We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards:
We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.