Distinguished Engineer

Position Responsibilities

As a Distinguished Engineer you will:

Develop and drive the overall tech strategy for the Reliability and observability tools organization and report to the Senior Director

Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership as Observability Domain Technical Champion

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 knowhow of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable systems considering both onpremises and cloudbased solutions

Develop and maintain comprehensive incident response plans to address various disaster scenarios on our backup/restore systems

Conduct regular simulations and drills to ensure the readiness of the organization in the event of a disaster

Handson software engineering and SDLC best practices (Technical Review Documents Architecture Software Development Software Reviews Testing Production Readiness Reviews among others)

Evaluate select and implement cuttingedge technologies and tools to enhance our data safeguard capabilities including but not limited to processes compliance and visibility

Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our data safeguard capabilities

Work closely with executive leadership IT teams and other stakeholders to communicate the importance of data safeguarding and foster a culture of resilience

Act as a trusted advisor providing guidance on backups/restores and security of data matters to technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Be a role model and mentor helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and knowhow of our engineering and product community

Possess Finops discipline Analyze cost and forecast incorporating them into business plans

Determine and support resource requirements evaluate operational processes measure outcomes to ensure desired results and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning Qualifications

Deep handson 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 two of the OOP language such as Java Go Python etc.

Great understanding of opensource databases like MySQL PostgreSQL etc. And strong foundation with NoSQL 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 OpenSource 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

Indepth 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 fastpaced startuplike 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 realtime communication)

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

Experience in opensource 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 realtime communication)

Knowledge in ML and AI technologies

Knowledge on Opensource monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

Experience

10 years of professional experience in software engineering Sensitivity: CompanyInternal

8 years of experience with architecture and design

6 years of experience in opensource frameworks

4 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service Education

Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems or equivalent education or work experience

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

Annual Salary

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 candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

Benefits:

As an Associate youll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and wellbeing including:

• Premier Medical Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
• Paid Vacation Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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.