Senior Staff Engineer: AI-First, Scalable Systems Leader

GEICO; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for critical software development systems, shaping architecture and strategy across GEICO Tech. You will own the long-term technical direction and drive scalable distributed systems while accelerating high-velocity development.

The role emphasizes ownership culture, cross-team collaboration, and strategic influence to deliver durable, reliable software across GEICO’s platforms.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term technical direction for GEICO’s tools as the management plane for team structure and roadmap delivery.
• Define and evolve system orchestration patterns that scale across diverse application architectures.
• Make architectural tradeoffs balancing reliability, operability, and development speed.
• Integrate across vendor and bespoke platforms to unify developer experiences.
• Develop and mature software development and system ownership across Tech.
• Connect team standards into source of truth for team organization and access.

Skills

Distributed systems

Fault tolerance

Technical leadership

Partial failure design

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Golang

Kubernetes

Microservices

Job description

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for critical software development systems, shaping architecture and strategy across GEICO Tech. You will own the long-term technical direction and drive scalable distributed systems while accelerating high-velocity development.

The role emphasizes ownership culture, cross-team collaboration, and strategic influence to deliver durable, reliable software across GEICO’s platforms.