Principal Engineer II - (Design Services/Java/C#/SRE/OSS/Grafana) - REMOTE

Position Summary  

​​GEICO is seeking an experienced 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.

Position Description 

Our Principal Engineer II is a lead member of the engineering staff working across the organization to ensure that we provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

Position Responsibilities 

​​As a Principal Engineer II, you will: 

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams

• ​Own complete solution across its entire life cycle

• ​Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise class business applications

• ​Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

• ​Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization

• Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services

• ​Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential

• ​Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualifications 

• ​​Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Python or C# including object-oriented design

• ​Experience building products of micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

• ​Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, scaling, assessment, and proposals) 

• ​​Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

• ​Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture and Azure DevOps Operational Framework 

• ​Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting 

• ​Experience in existing operational portals such as Azure Portal 

• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments

• ​Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform and its native services

• ​Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

• ​Experience in Azure Network (subscription, security zoning, etc.)   

• Experience in Grafana is a plus …