Senior Staff Software Architect & Tech Leader

GEICO; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for critical software systems, shaping GEICO Tech's software development culture and strategy. You will own architectural direction, drive scalable patterns, and balance reliability with speed to deliver impact across product teams.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and orchestrate cross-platform integration while advancing an AI-first approach and durable business outcomes.

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.

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 unstructured 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 reasoning

Platform/framework design

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Golang

Microservices

Developer tooling

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for critical software systems, shaping GEICO Tech's software development culture and strategy. You will own architectural direction, drive scalable patterns, and balance reliability with speed to deliver impact across product teams.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and orchestrate cross-platform integration while advancing an AI-first approach and durable business outcomes.