Staff Engineer - Strategy Foundation Engineering

September 16

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GEICO

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Auto Insurance • RV Insurance • ATV Insurance • Boat Insurance • Motorcycle Insurance

10,000+ employees

Founded 1936

💸 Finance

Description

• GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. • You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. • Our Staff Engineer works across engineering organizations to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. • You will lead Strategy and Execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes • Advanced knowledge of modern languages such as Java, .NET, Go, Python, C++, etc. • Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., as well as No-SQL databases like ONgDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc. • 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 • Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kafka) and K8s clusters • 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 on monitoring software such as Grafana and Prometheus, and conducting performance assessments • Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches • Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment • Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs • Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems • Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework • Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal • Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services • Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis • Strong problem-solving ability • Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Benefits

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