Senior SRE Engineer: Incident Prevention & COE Automation

GEICO; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO seeks an experienced Senior Staff Engineer - SRE focused on incident prevention and post-incident correction. You will lead COEs, improve root cause analysis, and build automation to reduce incidents while guiding cross‑team reliability improvements.

Role requires deep software engineering skills, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to mentor engineers across distributed systems in Azure and AWS environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience in platform/reliability engineering or distributed systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and operate automation, self-service tools, dashboards, and data pipelines for COE workflows.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

C#

Kubernetes

Serverless

Azure

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Information Systems or equivalent

Tools

KNative

Datadog

Grafana

Spark

Trino

Job description

GEICO seeks an experienced Senior Staff Engineer - SRE focused on incident prevention and post-incident correction. You will lead COEs, improve root cause analysis, and build automation to reduce incidents while guiding cross‑team reliability improvements.

Role requires deep software engineering skills, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to mentor engineers across distributed systems in Azure and AWS environments.