Senior Staff Engineer – Platform as a Service, Messaging

Position Summary

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Platform as a Service (PaaS) Messaging Team seeks an experienced Senior Staff Engineer passionate about building highly scalable distributed platforms.

You will help the PaaS team at GEICO in building a high-performance, low-maintenance, zero-downtime streaming platform that will help transform GEICO's insurance business from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission.

Position Description

Our Senior Staff Engineer collaborates closely with our senior engineers to drive innovation, build scalable systems, enhance existing ones, and discover solutions to critical business challenges.

In this role, you will spearhead the development and implementation of our technical roadmap, accelerate product delivery, and provide technical guidance to our engineering team.

An ideal candidate will possess extensive technical knowledge in the Open-Source Event Streaming field.

Position Responsibilities

As a Sr Staff Engineer, you will :

• Lead in multiple domains, offering technical and strategic guidance to the organization.
• Influence and educate Engineering leadership, stakeholders, and engineering teams on technical matters.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering groups to tackle complex challenges.
• Design, implement and deploy technical strategies and scalable software in the Platform Engineering domain.
• Ensure accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of our solutions.
• Serve as a role model and mentor, nurturing technical expertise across our engineering and product teams.
• Determine operational processes, measure outcomes for desired results, exhibit adaptability, and champion continuous learning.
• Participate in on-call duties and operational support as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive practical expertise in designing complex systems, data pipelines, and architectures, focusing on scalability, performance tuning, and proficiency in Messaging and event streaming solutions.
• Proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language like Java, Go, or Python.
• In-depth understanding of at least one open-source event streaming solution, such as Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, or RabbitMQ.
• Demonstrated capability in designing experiments, influencing engineering direction, and shaping product roadmaps.
• Proven track record of collaborating with engineering teams to transition research into production.
• Experience applying quantitative methods to solve analytical problems.
• Adept at thriving in a dynamic, startup-like environment.
• Understanding of Schema Registry and safe schema evolution is a plus.
• Familiarity with big data and streaming data architectures, data warehousing solutions, Hadoop, and ETL pipelines is a plus.

Experience

8+ years of experience with 6+ years in Scalable System Design, Architecture, and similar systems.

4+ years of professional Platform as a Service experience.

4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks and distributed systems.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Annual Salary

$120,000.00 - $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 Total Rewards Program* 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.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law.

GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and / or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company.

This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability.

We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

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