Senior Staff Software Architect & Tech Leader

Talentify; Bethesda (MD); 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 systems, guiding architecture, strategy, and innovation. You will set the direction for multiple products and services, ensuring scalable, reliable performance and a strong culture of ownership across teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape platform standards, and drive outcomes in an AI-first era, balancing speed with quality while unifying developer experiences across vendors and internal tools.

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.
• Knowledge of Golang, microservices, and Kubernetes is preferred.
• Hands-on experience building and improving developer tooling.
• Data-driven decision making from observability to success metrics.

Responsibilities

• Own the long-term technical direction for our tools as GEICO’s management plane for team structure and roadmap delivery.
• Define and evolve system orchestration patterns that scale across diverse application architectures and maturity levels.
• 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.
• Codify team standards and practices into source of truth for team organization.
• Connect team-based access across agentic development to permissions, to provide seamless, high velocity development experiences.
• Lead how organizations across Tech, from pricing to Platform as a Service, plan and execute on work in an AI-first era.
• Connect unstructured and structured data to quantify impact of technology & AI against business goals and KPIs.
• Cultivate engineering culture that recognizes engineers for the success and reliability of their products.

Skills

Distributed systems

Fault tolerance

Technical leadership

Partial failure design

Platform/framework design

Golang

Kubernetes

Microservices

Developer tooling

Observability

Job description

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for critical software systems, guiding architecture, strategy, and innovation. You will set the direction for multiple products and services, ensuring scalable, reliable performance and a strong culture of ownership across teams.

You will mentor engineers, shape platform standards, and drive outcomes in an AI-first era, balancing speed with quality while unifying developer experiences across vendors and internal tools.