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 Staff Engineer works with our Sr Staff Engineer 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 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 Observability, Data platform domain.
Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer, you will :
Focus on multiple 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 technical software development strategy for the Observability Engineering domain
Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen 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
Willing to take on-call and operation support
Qualifications
Deep hands-on experience in building complex distributed system to process large scale telemetry and architectures to support the scale and performance, with great knowledgeon Docker and Kubernetes
Advance knowledge of at least one OOP language such as Java, Go, Python, etc.
Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundationwith No-SQL databases like Clickhouse, Cassandra.
Apache Trino etc. Knowledge or Big data formats such as Parquetor Avro etc.
Experience in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions, Advanced data analytics using Open-Sourcetechnologies are a big plus.
Experience building distributed systems
Excellent communication skills needs to be able 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 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)
Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda / Kappa) and K8 cluster
Experience in open-source tools like GIT / Jenkin / CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform / Ansible is a plus
Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
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 in ML and AI technologies
Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
Experience
6+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
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 hybrid data center
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
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Annual Salary
$76,000.00 - $261,500.00
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.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified 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.
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