Senior Staff Engineer PaaS (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineer to build & scale next generation file transfer and file sharing platform to cater file sharing services within GEICO & between GEICO & its trusted external partners. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers. 

Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. Engineers 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 the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

Position Responsibilities 

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to design, build, productionize an enterprise application

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains 

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

• Influence and educate leadership at all levels 

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

• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning 

• Collaborate with application teams and business partners to standardize file sharing practices. Partner with them to scale product from 0 to 1

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and development of multi tier distributed systems.

• Fluent in at least two OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, etc.

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

• 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 CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus

• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

• Familiarity with other messaging and event solutions like Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hub is a plus.

 

Experience 

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering 

• 8+ years of experience in building scalable 3 tier production application touching millions of customers.

• 6+ years of experience with open-source frameworks is desired 

• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure and DevOps practices.

 

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

 

Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $230,000.00

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 candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

 

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

 

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

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

*Benefits may be different by location.  Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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.

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