Senior Staff Software Architect

GEICO

United States

On-site

USD 130,000 - 260,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for critical software systems, at the intersection of architecture, strategy, and innovation. You will guide the technical direction of multiple products and shape how GEICO Tech develops software to deliver impact.

This role targets engineers who craft scalable systems, define culture from team to company, mentor others, and leverage technology to tackle challenges.

Qualifications

10+ years 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.
Ability to reason about partial failure and design for it.
Experience shaping shared platforms or frameworks used by many teams.

Responsibilities

Own long-term technical direction for GEICO’s tools and roadmap delivery.
Define patterns for scalable system orchestration across architectures and maturity levels.
Balance reliability, operability, and development speed in tradeoffs.
Integrate across vendor and bespoke platforms to unify developer experiences.
Mature software ownership and codify team standards as truth for team organization.
Lead AI-first initiatives and connect data to business KPIs.

Skills

Large-scale distributed systems

Fault tolerance

Org-level leadership

Partial failure design

Platform orchestration

Tools

Golang

Kubernetes

Microservices

Developer tooling

Job description

This role targets engineers who craft scalable systems, define culture from team to company, mentor others, and leverage technology to tackle challenges.

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