Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering (SRE Availability, Incident & Change Management)  

Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering (SRE Availability, Incident & Change Management)

Position Description

Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems, and 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 their domain.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior 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 a variety of domains
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
• 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, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

Qualifications

• 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, operations, real-time communication)
• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience with Microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
• Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting
• Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• In depth knowledge of Datacenter structure, capabilities and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services 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.)
• Able to design and develop ALM features
• Experience with development and management of EAP

Experience

• 10+ years of professional DevOps experience
• 8+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 8+ years of experience in leadership position
• 8+ years of leading a SRE team
• 6+ years coding experience
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
• 5+ years of experience with one of the public cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing

Education

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

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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.