Senior Staff Engineer

GEICO; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead and shape high-scale, reliable platforms. You will guide enterprise change management, mentor teams, and own incident response across on-call rotations. Expect hands-on work with Go, Python, Java, and cloud-native architectures on AWS/Azure. Strong collaboration with product and engineering is essential.

You will drive best practices, scale systems, and reduce operational risk while delivering resilient services for millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Requires expertise in at least two modern programming languages and OO design.
• Hands-on experience in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Experience managing distributed systems in cloud environments (public, private, or hybrid).

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive the overall strategy for enterprise Change and Approval Management.
• Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams with strategic and technical guidance.
• Architect and develop cloud-native applications using Azure services.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and stakeholders to solve complex challenges.
• Ensure quality, performance, and usability of engineering solutions.
• Mentor engineers and influence executives; drive operational efficiency.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

OO design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Loki

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

## Senior Staff EngineerApply: Seattle, WA: Full time: Posted Yesterday: R0065468**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.**Position Summary**GEICO is seeking an experienced **Software Engineer** who is passionate about building **high-performance, maintainable, and resilient platforms and applications**. This role is integral to our ongoing transformation—moving from a traditional IT model to an **engineering-driven** organization that emphasizes reliability, scalability, and automation.**Position Description****Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)** blends software engineering and systems administration to design, develop, and manage large-scale, **highly available, fault-tolerant** systems. SRE ensures that GEICO’s services—both internal and customer-facing—meet **reliability, uptime, and performance** standards while enabling **rapid iteration and continuous improvement**.As an **SRE at GEICO**, you will tackle the unique challenges of **operating at scale**, leveraging expertise in **coding and large-scale system design**. You will also participate in **on-call rotations**, providing **incident response, troubleshooting, and post-mortem analysis** to improve system reliability and **minimize operational impact**.At GEICO, we foster a culture of **collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence**. We value **diversity, problem-solving, and risk-taking in a blame-free environment**, empowering engineers to innovate while receiving mentorship and support.**Position Responsibilities**As a **Senior Staff Engineer**, you will:* **Develop and drive the overall strategy**for our enterprise Change and Approval Management, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives* **Lead technical initiatives** across multiple teams, providing **strategic and technical guidance**.* Utilize programming languages like **Go, Python, Java**, and work with **SQL/NoSQL databases**.* Work with **container orchestration tools** such as **Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenStack**.* Architect and develop **cloud-native** applications using **Azure services**.* Collaborate with **product managers, engineering teams, and stakeholders** to solve complex challenges.* Ensure the **quality, performance, and usability** of engineering solutions.* Serve as a **mentor and thought leader**, coaching engineers and influencing executives.* Continuously improve processes, adopt **best practices**, and drive operational efficiency.* Support and participate in **On Call rotations**, respond to incidents, diagnosing production issues, and conducting **post-incident reviews** to improve system reliability.**Qualifications*** Expertise in at least two modern programming languages (**Go, Python, Java, C, C++**) and object-oriented design.* Strong **ownership and accountability** with excellent communication and collaboration skills.* Hands-on experience in **incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis**.* Experience managing **distributed systems** in **public, private, or hybrid cloud environments**.* Experience with **monitoring, logging, and observability** tools (**Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki**).* Experience with **CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-based deployments**.* Ability to operate in a **fast-paced, high-scale** environment with a **problem-solving mindset**.**Experience*** 10+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, and infrastructure management.* 8+ years of experience as either a SRE or DevOps team member* 8+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid cloud environments.* 8+ years of experience with open-source frameworks.* 5+ years of experience with system architecture and design.* 5+ years of experience of being in an OnCall rotation**Education*** Bachelor's degree in **Computer Science, Information Systems**, or equivalent work experience.**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.