Senior Staff SRE: Platform Reliability & Tech Leadership

GEICO; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineer in Seattle to lead site reliability efforts, shaping the engineering-driven transformation. You will design scalable, highly available systems and mentor teams while participating in on-call incident response to minimize operational impact.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in software and 8+ years in SRE/DevOps, with strong Python/Go/Java skills, cloud experience across AWS/GCP/Azure, and hands‑on expertise in observability and IaC.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software development, platform architecture, and infrastructure management.
• 8+ years as an SRE or DevOps team member.
• 8+ years with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid cloud environments.
• 8+ years with open‑source frameworks.
• 5+ years of system architecture and design.
• 5+ years of being in an OnCall rotation.

Responsibilities

• Develop and drive the overall strategy for enterprise Change and Approval Management.
• Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, providing guidance.
• Utilize Go, Python, Java and work with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenStack.
• Architect and develop cloud‑native applications using Azure services.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and stakeholders.
• Ensure quality, performance, and usability of solutions.
• Mentor engineers and influence executives.
• Continuously improve processes and drive operational efficiency.
• Support On Call rotations and post‑incident reviews.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C/C++

Distributed systems

On-call rotations

Monitoring/observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD

IaC

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Loki

Job description

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineer in Seattle to lead site reliability efforts, shaping the engineering-driven transformation. You will design scalable, highly available systems and mentor teams while participating in on-call incident response to minimize operational impact.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in software and 8+ years in SRE/DevOps, with strong Python/Go/Java skills, cloud experience across AWS/GCP/Azure, and hands‑on expertise in observability and IaC.