Senior Software Engineer- Observability and Reliability Platform Engineering (REMOTE)

GEICO; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Remote; USD 90,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Observability and Reliability Platform Engineering team. This remote role involves building high-performance systems and leading technical strategies to enhance product delivery. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in distributed systems and a strong background in open-source technologies.

Benefits

401K savings plan with 6% match

Tuition assistance

Flexible work options

Comprehensive health benefits

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in software development.
• Hands-on experience with complex distributed systems.
• Experience with open-source frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical roadmap execution and improve engineering capabilities.
• Collaborate with teams to solve complex problems.
• Mentor junior engineers and share best practices.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Problem Solving

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Senior Software Engineer- Observability and Reliability Platform Engineering (REMOTE)

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At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Engineers works with our Sr Staff Engineers and 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 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 Observability, Data platform domain.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior 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 Observability Engineering domain
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and 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
• Willing to take on-call and operation support
  
  

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in building complex distributed system to process large scale telemetry and architectures to support the scale and performance, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• Advance knowledge of at least one OOP language such as Java, Go, Python, etc.
• Understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Clickhouse, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc. Knowledge or Big data formats such as Parquet or Avro etc.
• Experience in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions, Advanced data analytics using Open-Source technologies are a big plus.
• Experience building distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Willing to work on both fast development and operation 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)
• Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster
• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• 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)
• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
  
  

Experience

• 3+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
• 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 1+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center
  
  

Education

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

Annual Salary

$90,000.00 - $215,000.00

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.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
  
  

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Insurance

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