Staff Engineer - Object Storage PaaS (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking an experienced engineer with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation and platform engineering domain modernization as we redefine experiences for our customers. You will be instrumental in driving the adoption and expansion of our object storage, ensuring its stability, security, and performance across our hybrid cloud environment for DataLakes/AI/ML Workloads

Position Description 

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Staff 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 ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source Object Storage platform domain.  

This team’s mission is strengthening GEICO's storage platform ecosystem by implementing open source, cloud native and cloud agnostic Object Storage for Datalakes/AI/ML workloads. We are looking for building a robust, automated, and scalable storage infrastructure to provide reliable and efficient storage services, empowering GEICO to deliver exceptional customer experiences and cheaper insurance using cutting edge technology stack.
 
Position Responsibilities 
As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems 
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain 
• Own accountability for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions 
• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and storage and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes 
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 
• Take on-call and operational support 

Qualifications: 

• Fluent in at least two OOP languages such as Go (preferred) or C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Good knowledge of two of the following languages: C, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Java script, shell script, SQL, etc.
• Understand open-source object storage & databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with CEPH, MinIO, No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch 
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production 
• Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) 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 
• Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment  
• Knowledge of developer tooling across …