Senior Staff Engineer (PostgreSQL) - Database Platform Remote

​​GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Database Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, highly available databases with PostgreSQL. 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 Senior Staff Database Engineer works with other engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. You will be instrumental in 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 relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL. 

Position Responsibilities  

​​As a Senior Staff Database Engineer, you will:  

• ​​Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems  

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for persistent storage, specifically relational storage in PostgreSQL 

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

• ​Utilize modern programming languages where necessary 

• Be intimately familiar with relational database design and operation 

• Understanding of operating PostgreSQL in a Kubernetes containerized environment 

• Build and operate containerized database workloads at scale 

• ​Mentor and coach existing engineers 

• 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, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning 

Qualifications  

• ​​You are customer-centric, always keeping the customer’s experience at the forefront of the conversation 

• You are transparent and decisive. You have a prejudice for action and an iterative approach to software 

• You learn from your mistakes and pass the knowledge on to others 

• Fluency and expertise in PostgreSQL 

• ​Experience building products in a micro-services-oriented architecture 

• ​Experience with the architecture and design of greenfield and legacy systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)   

• ​​Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code 

• ​Fluency in DevOps concepts, cloud architecture, CI/CD frameworks (Github Actions, et al) 

• ​Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments 

• ​In-depth knowledge of data structures and algorithms  

• ​Experience with 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, operations, real-time …