Senior Platform Engineer - Distributed Systems

Government Employees Insurance Company; Renton (WA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO seeks a Sr Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical roadmap for Digital Personal Auto Sales, delivering scalable services across on-prem and cloud environments. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and enforce best practices for reliable, observable systems.

You will collaborate with executives and engineers to accelerate modernization while ensuring security and performance in high-availability platforms across GEICO’s portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud service providers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive the overall technical roadmap for the Digital Personal Auto Sales, aligning it with business goals.
• Lead design and architecture of resilient, scalable platform services (on-premises and cloud).
• Champion software development best practices and safe deployment processes for continuous delivery.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with leadership to accelerate platform modernization.
• Ensure observability, security, and reliability across distributed systems.

Skills

Go

Java

High-scale systems

Security best practices

SQL/NoSQL

Networking/CDN/Load balancing

DevOps practices

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Incident management

Open-source tools

Architecture & design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Open-source tools

Job description

GEICO seeks a Sr Staff Software Engineer to shape the technical roadmap for Digital Personal Auto Sales, delivering scalable services across on-prem and cloud environments. You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and enforce best practices for reliable, observable systems.

You will collaborate with executives and engineers to accelerate modernization while ensuring security and performance in high-availability platforms across GEICO’s portfolio.