Senior Staff Engineer – PaaS_IaaS REMOTE

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. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source technologies such as Terraform, Postgres, Keda, Knative, and Kubernetes as a service. 

Position Responsibilities 

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise 

• 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 

• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans 

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

• Stay at the forefront of emerging serverless trends, technologies, and best practices, and apply this knowledge to enhance GEICO’s PaaS strategies 

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvements 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including security, compliance, and application teams to ensure the seamless integration and alignment of solutions with organizational goals 

• Build resilient and scalable architecture, driving innovation and cost efficiency 

Qualifications 

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and implementation of Containers and Kubernetes platform 

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

• Good knowledge for two of the following languages: C, C# or other object-oriented languages, PHP, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, shell script, etc. 

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap 

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production 

• Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals 

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code 

• Experience deploying applications with PaaS platforms 

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 

• 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 in big data and streaming data architecture (Lambda/Kappa), K8 cluster and ETL pipeline 

• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies 

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube …