Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering (HYBRID)

GEICO

Job Location:

Bethesda, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 130000 - 260000

Posted on: 4 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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.

Senior Staff Engineer Software Engineering

Position Description

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Staff Engineer to join our
engineering organization and drive technical excellence across our platform.

This is a pivotal role for a seasoned engineer who combines deep hands-on expertise with the ability to influence technical direction at the organizational level.

As a Senior Staff Engineer you will be architecting scalable infrastructure
mentoring engineering teams and applying cutting-edge AI solutions to solve
complex business-critical problems. You will work at the intersection of
infrastructure data systems and applied artificial intelligence ensuring our
technology stack is robust efficient and positioned for future growth.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer you will:

Define and drive the technical vision for infrastructure and AI-powered systems across the organization
Design architect and implement highly scalable fault-tolerant distributed systems
Lead technical decision-making on critical projects balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability
Establish and champion engineering best practices design patterns and coding standards
Architect and optimize compute infrastructure for performance reliability and cost efficiency
Design and implement database solutions (relational and NoSQL) that scale to meet business demands
Drive cloud infrastructure strategy including containerization orchestration and serverless architectures
Ensure system reliability observability and operational excellence across all platform components
Identify and prioritize opportunities to apply AI/ML to solve high-impact business problems
Stay current with emerging AI technologies and evaluate their applicability to business challenges
Mentor and grow senior engineers fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
Conduct design reviews and provide constructive feedback on technical proposals
Collaborate cross-functionally with product design and business stakeholders
Lead complex ambiguous projects from conception through delivery
Drive pragmatic trade-offs between technical debt velocity and quality
Contribute hands-on to critical codebases when needed
Champion operational excellence and incident management best practices

Qualifications

Deep expertise in infrastructure systems including compute platforms (Kubernetes Docker cloud services) networking and storage
Strong database experience across relational databases (PostgreSQL MySQL) and NoSQL solutions (MongoDB Cassandra Redis DynamoDB)
Demonstrated experience applying AI to solve real-world problems in production environments
Expert-level proficiency in at least two programming languages (e.g. Python Java Go Rust)
Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale
Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure OR AWS) and infrastructure-as-code practices
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines build systems and deployment automation (e.g. GitHub Actions Jenkins Azure DevOps ArgoCD)
Background in building real-time data processing systems (Kafka Flink Spark)
Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
Experience working in a platform engineering team building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services

Experience

10 years of professional software development experience with a proven track record of increasing technical scope and impact
6 years of experience in open-source frameworks
5 years of development in a large-scale mission-critical environment
Hands-on work experience coaching and mentor personnel in a technical environment
5 years of experience with one of the public clouds - AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service
5 years of experience working in a platform engineering team building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent education or work experience

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Annual Salary

$130000.00 - $260000.00

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

At this time GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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.

Required Experience:

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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 ...