Staff Engineer - Capacity Planning and Management

GEICO; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K savings plan with 6% match

Tuition assistance

Mental healthcare support

Flexibility to work remotely for 4 weeks a year

Job summary

A leading auto insurer is seeking a Staff Engineer in Capacity Engineering to enhance their Capacity Management Platform. The role involves collaborating with various teams to develop innovative capacity solutions, ensuring efficient infrastructure and supporting application growth. Candidates need at least 8 years of experience in infrastructure engineering and strong skills in data analysis and collaboration. This is a critical position for optimizing the company’s cloud and infrastructure strategies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in capacity engineering in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with hybrid environment management and application migration strategies.
• Strong data analytics experience for infrastructure insights.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to develop capacity engineering solutions.
• Support workload repatriation and quota management.
• Ensure efficient infrastructure provisioning for application growth.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Data analysis

Collaboration skills

API development

FinOps principles

Job description

GEICO . For more information, please .GEICO is seeking a Staff Engineer - Capacity Engineering to support the buildout of core capabilities within our Capacity Management Platform. This platform is essential for enabling proactive infrastructure and cloud capacity planning across GEICO’s hybrid technology landscape.The Staff Engineer will partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, Hardware Procurement, Finance, and Service Provider teams to develop and scale capacity engineering solutions that support workload repatriation, quota and subscription management, forecasting, and infrastructure demand planning. This role plays a critical part in ensuring GEICO’s infrastructure is provisioned efficiently and strategically to support application onboarding, growth, and modernization efforts. This role will help establish capacity engineering as a core function that empowers infrastructure efficiency, long-term cost predictability, and service availability across GEICO's technical platforms.Position Responsibilities As a Staff Engineer, Capacity Engineering you will:Qualifications 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or capacity engineering in large-scale enterprise or hybrid cloud environments. Experience working closely with procurement, hardware, or finance teams to guide infrastructure acquisition based on forecasted demand. Familiarity with workload repatriation, application migration strategies, and hybrid environment management.Experience building internal tools and APIs for consumption by engineering or operations teams. Strong data analysis background with experience in data pipelines, dashboards, or analytics platforms for infrastructure and utilization insights.Excellent collaboration and communication skills; able to influence cross-functional stakeholders at varying levels of technical and business expertise.Preferred Qualifications Experience with FinOps principles, cloud cost optimization, or cloud spend forecasting.Familiarity with enterprise quota management systems or internal subscription modeling.Knowledge of infrastructure telemetry systems and service ownership models. Prior experience supporting hardware procurement or platform growth strategies in a regulated environment. #Li-RP2* Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.* Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.* Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.* Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.For more than 75 years, GEICO has stood out from the rest of the insurance industry! We are one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing auto insurers thanks to our low rates, outstanding service and clever marketing. We're an industry leader employing thousands of dedicated and hard-working associates. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, we offer associates training and career advancement in a financially stable and rewarding workplace.