Sr. Software Engineer

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior 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 a culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Our Senior Engineer works with our Sr Staff Engineer and other 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 project 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 Observability and Data platform domain.

• Focus on one or more areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise.
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems.
• Develop and execute a technical software development strategy for the Observability Engineering domain.
• Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
• Act as an executor and active learner, coaching TDPs and strengthening the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community; influence and educate executives.
• 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, demonstrate adaptability, and sponsor continuous learning.
• Be willing to take on-call and operation support.

• Good hands‑on experience building complex distributed systems to process large‑scale telemetry and architectures to support scale and performance, with strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Advanced knowledge of at least one object‑oriented language such as Java, Go, or Python.
• Great understanding of open‑source databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL, and a strong foundation with No‑SQL databases such as Click House, Cassandra, and knowledge of big‑data formats such as Parquet or Avro.
• Experience architecting, designing, and building Observability platform solutions; advanced data analytics using open‑source technologies is a big plus.
• Experience building distributed systems.
• Excellent communication skills – needs to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis.
• 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.
• Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log.
• Ability to excel in a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment.
• Willing to work on both fast development and operation environments.
• 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 of big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience with open‑source tools like Git, Jenkins, CircleCI, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Knowledge of ML and AI technologies.
• Knowledge of Open‑source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus.

• 4+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of hardware, software, and network systems.
• 4+ years of experience in open‑source frameworks.
• 3+ years of experience in design.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent…