Senior Staff Engineer

GEICO; California (MD); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide architectural leadership for critical software systems across GEICO Tech. You will own long-term technical direction, define scalable patterns, and drive high-velocity development while balancing reliability and operability.

You will mentor engineers across multiple teams and collaborate with product owners to deliver business impact. The role requires 10+ years in distributed systems, hands-on experience with Golang and Kubernetes,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design.
• Experience leading multiple teams and shaping shared platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term technical direction for GEIGO’s tools and platforms.
• Architect and codify scalable system patterns for reliability and speed.
• Lead cross-team initiatives in AI-ready engineering and developer tooling.
• Mentor engineers and grow technical talent across the organization.

Skills

Distributed systems

Fault tolerance

Leadership

Partial failure design

Architecture patterns

Observability

Data-driven decisions

Cross-team collaboration

Performance optimization

Strategic thinking

Tools

Golang

Kubernetes

Microservices

DevOps tooling

Job description

## Senior Staff EngineerApply: Hybrid: Remote (United States): Palo Alto, CA: Chicago, IL: Dallas, TX: Bethesda, MD: Full time: Posted Today: R0065948**Why Join GEICO?**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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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.**The Role:**We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for critical software development systems while establishing a strong culture of ownership. This role operates at the intersection of architecture, strategic influence, and innovation. You will be responsible for the technical direction of multiple products and systems, and shaping how GEICO Tech develops software and delivers the impact of their work.This is a role for engineers who:* Craft thoughtfully designed, scalable systems* Define culture from team to company* Mentor and grow engineers within and across teams* Leverage technology to tackle any challenge**Scope & Impact**At the Senior Staff level, success is measured by durable impact across and beyond the Developer Engineer org, while leading and developing software. You will build systems while accelerating the growth and transformation of GEICO Tech.**What You’ll Do****Enterprise Technical Leadership*** Own the long‐term technical direction for our tools as GEICO’s management plane for team structure and roadmap delivery.* Define and evolve system orchestration patterns that scale across diverse application architectures and maturity levels.* Make architectural tradeoffs balancing reliability, operability, and development speed.* Integrate across vendor and bespoke platforms to unify developer experiences.**Culture of Ownership – Software Development*** Develop and mature software development and system ownership across Tech* Codify team standards and practices into source of truth for team organization* Connect team-based access across agentic development to permissions, to provide seamless, high velocity development experiences**Culture of Ownership – Outcomes & Impact*** Lead how organizations across Tech, from pricing to Platform as a Service, plan and execute on work in an AI-first era* Connect unstructured and unstructured data to quantify impact of technology & AI against business goals and KPIs* Cultivate engineering culture that recognizes engineers for the success and reliability of their products**What We’re Looking For****Required*** 10+ years of experience building and operating large‐scale distributed systems.* Deep expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design.* Proven track record of org‐level technical leadership beyond a single team.* Strong ability to reason about and design for partial failure.* Experience shaping shared platforms or frameworks used by many teams.**Strongly Preferred*** Experience with durable execution, or workflow orchestration* Experience with Golang, microservices, Kubernetes; front end experience nice to have* Hands‐on experience building and improving developer tooling.* Data-driven decision making, from observability to success metrics.* Ability to translate low‐level technical risks into clear business and reliability outcomes.**Annual Salary**$130,000.00 - $260,000.00The 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:** Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.**Great Careers:**Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.**Great Culture:**Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.**Great Rewards:**Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.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.