Senior Staff Engineer, SRE & Cloud Platform Lead

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

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.