Sr. Staff Software Engineer – IaaS (VM-as-a-Service) REMOTE

Position Summary 

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. 

Position Description

Our Sr. Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineers, Staff Engineers, and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as 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 VM Management team is driving the development of the next-gen Kubernetes-based VM platform, prioritizing security, reliability, scalability, and efficiency. We seek a candidate with deep technical expertise in designing, building, and maintaining secure cluster management systems on Azure and OpenStack IaaS, at scale across physical and public cloud environments.

Position Responsibilities

As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will:

• Provide technical and thought leadership across diverse areas.

• Collaborate with teams, customers, and product managers to address challenges.

• Develop and execute a strategic software development plan for IaaS, encompassing containers, VMs, Kubernetes, and OpenStack. Prioritize security, optimization for performance and efficiency across the entire development lifecycle.

• Own solution quality, usability, and performance.

• Mentor and exemplify technical excellence, influencing the engineering and product community.

• Share best practices, refine processes, and drive continuous improvement.

• Analyze costs, forecast, and integrate into business plans.

• Determine resource needs, assess processes, and ensure adaptability for continuous learning.

• Fulfill on-call responsibilities and offer operational support.

Qualifications

• Expertise in multi-cluster metrics, observability, and operations utilizing frameworks such as Grafana and Prometheus.

• In-depth understanding of containerization technologies, including Docker, Podman, and Rancher.

• Proficient with advanced technologies like ArgoCD and KubeVirt.

• In-depth knowledge and practical experience in Linux operating systems, internals, and command-line utilities.

• Proven expertise in optimizing CI/CD for streamlined Kubernetes deployment and configuration using GitOps and ArgoCD.

• Hands-on experience in public and/or private cloud environments, including OpenStack, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, and GCP.

• Extensive experience in API, Microservices, network, and security architectures, incorporating design patterns.

• Strong foundations in software engineering, encompassing the entire software delivery lifecycle.

• Professional experience in software development using modern programming languages like Go, Python, or Java.

• Experience in security protocols …