Senior Software Engineer – Object Storage PaaS - Hybrid - Cloud (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior 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 Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and 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.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior 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, JavaScript, shell script, SQL, etc.

Understanding of open-source object storage and databases such as 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 the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)

Experience on open-source database platforms with emphasis on building enterprise scale RDMS and NoSQL platforms

Knowledge in big data and streaming data & storagepipeline architecture (Lambda / Kappa) and K8 cluster

Experience in open-source tools like GIT / Jenkin / CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform / Ansible will be big plus

Experience

Professional PaaS and IaaS experience (optional)

Experience with architecture and design

Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service (optional)

2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

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

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Annual Salary

$76,000.00 - $236,500.00

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.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Benefits :

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our

• to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including :
• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures
• Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.