Distinguished Engineer {REMOTE}

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. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

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. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

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
• 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
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable systems considering both on-premises and cloud-based 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
• Hands-on software engineering and SDLC best practices (Technical Review Documents Architecture Software Development Software Reviews Testing Production Readiness Reviews among others)
• Evaluate select and implement cutting-edge technologies and tools to enhance our data safeguard capabilities including but not limited to processes compliance and visibility
• 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 non-technical stakeholders
• Determine and support resource requirements evaluate operational processes measure outcomes to ensure desired results and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning Qualifications
• Deep 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 two of the OOP language such as Java Go Python etc.
• Great 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
• 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 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

Experience

• 10 years of professional experience in software engineering Sensitivity: Company-Internal
• 8 years of experience with architecture and design
• 6 years of experience in open-source 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

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.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples 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. Youll 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 familys 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.