Staff Engineer – PaaS_IaaS .Net Remote

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished 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 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 Database 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 Platform Engineering domain
• Own accountability for the quality, usability & 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
• Take on-call and operation support

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• Fluent at least two OOP languages such as Java, Go, python, C++, etc
• Good knowledge for two of the following languages : C, PHP, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, shell script, etc
• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc, familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch;

knowledge with NewSQL database like TIDB, Cockroach or YugabyteDB will be a plus

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals
• Experience with continuous delivery 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
• 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 architecture (Lambda / Kappa), K8 cluster and ETL pipeline
• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies
• Experience in CI / CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT / Jenkin / CircleCI / SonarQube knowledge in Terraform / Ansible will be big plus
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

Experience

• 6+ years of professional PaaS and IaaS experience
• 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

$110,000.00 - $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.