Senior Staff Engineer: M365, AI Platform & Productivity

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

Job summary

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Engineer in Palo Alto to steer technical direction for Microsoft 365 and AI capabilities. You will lead architecture, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration while maintaining hands-on coding and automation work.

You will shape roadmaps, establish security and reliability standards, and drive observability and operational readiness across enterprise platforms. This role offers hybrid work with strong leadership impact.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive experience engineering and operating enterprise platforms across architecture, automation, integration, testing, deployment, observability, reliability, and production support.
• Strong proficiency in PowerShell, .NET, C#, and at least one of Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, Microsoft Graph APIs, Git, pull requests, CI/CD, and infrastructure or configuration as code.
• Advanced administration and engineering experience across Microsoft 365 workloads and tenant governance.
• M365 Copilot and AI experience, including governance, evaluation, and security considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, engineering, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise Microsoft 365 and AI platform capabilities.
• Remain hands-on with software engineering, PowerShell, APIs, infrastructure and configuration as code, testing, telemetry, and root-cause analysis.
• Translate complex business requirements into technical designs, delivery plans, and reusable patterns.
• Establish standards for secure design, maintainability, reliability, performance, testability, observability, deployment, and ownership.
• Lead reviews for architecture, code, automation, configurations, integrations, and production readiness.
• Drive service maturity through telemetry, capacity planning, incident analysis, and corrective engineering.

Skills

PowerShell

C#

.NET

Microsoft Graph APIs

Git

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Job description

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Engineer in Palo Alto to steer technical direction for Microsoft 365 and AI capabilities. You will lead architecture, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration while maintaining hands-on coding and automation work.

You will shape roadmaps, establish security and reliability standards, and drive observability and operational readiness across enterprise platforms. This role offers hybrid work with strong leadership impact.