Senior Staff SRE: Incident Prevention & Post-Incident Fix

GEICO; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer–SRE focused on incident prevention and post‑incident correction of errors. The role emphasizes building automated COEs, improving root‑cause analysis, and reducing repeat incidents across GEICO’s distributed platforms.

Candidates should bring deep software engineering and leadership in high‑severity incident contexts. The position requires 10+ years of software engineering experience, strong cloud and Kubernetes skills, and proven ability to guide

Qualifications

• Hands on proficiency in multiple languages including Go, Java, Python and C# for building production‑grade applications.
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), and data pipelines.
• Experience with observability and incident tooling to support site reliability.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate automation and COE tooling to improve incident prevention and post‑incident learning.
• Lead root‑cause analysis and drive improvements across distributed systems.
• Coach teams on reliable software engineering and incident response practices.
• Collaborate with platform, SRE, and application teams to implement scalable COE processes.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

C#

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

Spark

Trino

Grafana

PowerBI

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer–SRE focused on incident prevention and post‑incident correction of errors. The role emphasizes building automated COEs, improving root‑cause analysis, and reducing repeat incidents across GEICO’s distributed platforms.

Candidates should bring deep software engineering and leadership in high‑severity incident contexts. The position requires 10+ years of software engineering experience, strong cloud and Kubernetes skills, and proven ability to guide