Senior Staff Engineer, SRE & Incident Leadership

GEICO; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead incident management, automation, and reliable platform delivery across hybrid environments in Bethesda, MD and Richardson, TX. You will own enterprise platforms, dashboards, data pipelines, and on-call tooling to improve detection, triage, and recovery.

The role requires deep technical depth, strong leadership, and collaboration with SRE, security, and product teams to drive operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Experience in platform/reliability engineering
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve enterprise-critical platforms and automation
• Lead incident management and post-incident reviews
• Guide cross-team coordination and technical direction
• Mentor engineers and promote reliability practices
• Maintain engineering standards across design, deployment, and operations

Skills

Go

Java

Python

C#

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Datadog

PagerDuty

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

PagerDuty

Job description

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead incident management, automation, and reliable platform delivery across hybrid environments in Bethesda, MD and Richardson, TX. You will own enterprise platforms, dashboards, data pipelines, and on-call tooling to improve detection, triage, and recovery.

The role requires deep technical depth, strong leadership, and collaboration with SRE, security, and product teams to drive operational excellence.