Staff Software Engineer Infrastructure, Data Lakehouse Platform

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 Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building highperformance lowmaintenance zerodowntime platforms and core data this role you will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a modern technology organization with engineering excellence at its core. You will also help cocreate a culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to innovate and introduce bestinclass opensource data infrastructure and practices at GEICO. This role supports a greenfield initiative to design and implement a core Data Lakehouse platform that serves GEICOs enterprisewide data use cases across all business verticals.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer you will:

• Scope design and build scalable resilient Data Lakehouse components

• Lead architecture discussions design sessions and technical reviews with peers and leadership

• Own the quality usability performance and reliability of delivered solutions

• Evaluate and introduce new tools platforms and software to advance our data ecosystem

• Define and support resource needs assess operational processes measure outcomes and drive continuous improvement and learning

• Collaborate closely with customers engineers and crossfunctional teams to solve complex technical challenges

• Serve as a technical role model and mentor strengthening the skills and expertise of the engineering community

• Share best practices and continuously improve processes across teams

• Stay current with emerging opensource projects and technologies by experimenting learning engaging with internal and external communities and mentoring others

Qualifications

• Strong ability to design develop and experiment with complex systems

• Must have experience developing new and enhancing existing opensourcebased Data Lakehouse platform components

• Demonstrated experience contributing to and building relationships within opensource communities

• Handson experience with opensource table formats (e.g. Apache Iceberg Delta Lake Apache Hudi or equivalent)

• Handson experience with opensource compute engines (e.g. Apache Spark Apache Flink Trino/Presto or equivalent)

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Hybrid Cloud or equivalent)

• Expertise in designing and building distributed systems that are scalable resilient and highly available

• Strong experience with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with continuous delivery pipelines and infrastructureascode practices

• Indepth knowledge of DevOps principles and cloud architecture

• Ability to thrive in a fastpaced startuplike environment

• Experience with Azure networking (subscriptions security zoning etc.) or equivalent cloud networking concepts

Experience

• 6 years of professional experience in data software development including programming and bigdata technologies

• 4 years of experience working on opensource software development

• 3 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another major cloud service provider

Education

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field such as Physics or Mathematics

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.