Staff Engineer - Availability and Incident Management

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced 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

The Staff Engineer in Availability and Incident Management team will engineer solutions and empower the developer community with experiences, tools, and automated processes that reduce friction and improve developer satisfaction. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge supporting Full Stack development and with a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

* Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams

* Own complete solution across its entire life cycle

* Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications

* Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

* Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization

* Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, Go, C#, Python or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and No

SQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker, Rancher and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure services

* Utilize modern UI frameworks like React, Flutter etc.

* Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential

* Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualifications

* Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Go, C# or Python including object-oriented design

* Fluency and specialization with any modern UI frameworks like React, Flutter etc.

* Experience in building products using micro-services-oriented architecture, extensible REST APIs and GraphQL

* Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP

* Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems

* Experience writing workflow automation code (YAML pipelines, Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops pipelines)

* Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

* Fluency in Dev Ops Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure Dev Ops Operational Framework

* Experience in leveraging Power Shell scripting

* Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments

* Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services

* Experience in security protocols and products:
Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

* Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc.)

* 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, operations, real-time communication)

* Enterprise level requirements and design documentations

* Strong problem-solving ability

* Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Experience

* 6+ years of professional software development experience within any object-oriented programming language

* 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

* 3+ years of experience with architecture and design

* 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Education

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Annual Salary

$ - $

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment…