Senior AI Platform Engineer — Agent Harness & RAG

GEICO; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate enterprise backend platforms. You will own major components from design through rollout, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to translate needs into scalable platform features.

The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and robust production operations across the stack. You will contribute to agent harnessing, RAG, and related systems while ensuring performance, security, and on-call readiness for GEICO's

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems at scale.
• Experience owning the design and delivery of services or major features end to end.
• Strong proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, Go, or comparable languages.
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, consistency, fault tolerance, data modeling, API design, and scalability.
• Experience operating production services with CI/CD, automated testing, and Kubernetes or other container platforms.
• Hands-on operational experience supporting production systems, including observability, monitoring and alerting, on-call participation, incident response, and postmortems.
• Experience scaling systems or improving reliability, such as meeting SLOs, performance tuning, capacity planning, or eliminating recurring failure modes.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of significant platform components and features end to end, from technical design and API definition through implementation, rollout, and iteration.
• Write clear design docs, contribute actively to design and code reviews, and make sound tradeoffs within your area of ownership.
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, and help raise the engineering bar on the team.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and consuming teams to understand workflow needs and translate them into platform features.
• Own the production health of the components you build: define SLIs/SLOs and build dashboards and alerts.
• Build observability in from the start, with metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing.
• Design for scale and resilience, and participate in on-call rotations and postmortems.
• Contribute to operational excellence through runbooks, alert hygiene, and safe deployment practices.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Observability

On-call

Cloud platforms

Tools

Python

Java

Go

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and operate enterprise backend platforms. You will own major components from design through rollout, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product teams to translate needs into scalable platform features.

The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and robust production operations across the stack. You will contribute to agent harnessing, RAG, and related systems while ensuring performance, security, and on-call readiness for GEICO's