Senior SRE Engineer: Incident & Reliability Platform

GEICO; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior SRE Software Engineer to strengthen incident management and build high‑performance, low‑downtime platforms. You will drive on‑call readiness, runbooks and automation across distributed services, collaborating with engineering teams to improve reliability across applications.

This hands‑on role requires deep technical skills in Go, Java, Python or C#, cloud platforms, observability tools and incident response practices, with leadership during outages and

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and observability tooling.
• Strong incident management and reliability engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and operate automation, self‑service tools, dashboards, and data pipelines that automate and scale our incident management, on‑call, paging and troubleshooting processes.
• Build shared services, APIs, data contracts, automation, and integrations that standardize incident response and reduce operational risk.
• Apply engineering standards across design, implementation, deployment, testing, observability, security, operational support, and production readiness.
• Implement safe deployment, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, rollback patterns, and operational controls that support frequent and reliable delivery.
• Evaluate and implement modern technologies and tools that improve platform capability, compliance, visibility, reliability, and engineering effectiveness.
• Act as a technical leader during high‑severity incidents, bringing sound technical judgment, system‑level problem solving, and calm execution under pressure.
• Contribute to post‑incident reviews, root cause analysis, corrective action planning, and systemic reliability improvements.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

C#

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Datadog

PagerDuty

Job description

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior SRE Software Engineer to strengthen incident management and build high‑performance, low‑downtime platforms. You will drive on‑call readiness, runbooks and automation across distributed services, collaborating with engineering teams to improve reliability across applications.

This hands‑on role requires deep technical skills in Go, Java, Python or C#, cloud platforms, observability tools and incident response practices, with leadership during outages and