Staff Engineer - Capacity Planning and Management

GEICO; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K savings plan with match

Performance incentives

Tuition assistance

Flexibility to work remotely

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Staff Engineer – Capacity Engineering in Seattle, WA to enhance core capabilities within our Capacity Management Platform. This role is crucial for proactive infrastructure and cloud capacity planning.

The position involves designing systems for capacity forecasting, optimizing workloads, and developing tools for real-time capacity signals. Candidates should have over 8 years in infrastructure engineering and strong collaboration skills.

Competitive salary range: $110,000 – $230,000.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or capacity engineering.
• Expertise in capacity planning models and forecasting pipelines.
• Strong understanding of cloud services and infrastructure workflows.
• Experience with procurement and infrastructure acquisition.
• Familiarity with application migration strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of capacity forecasting systems.
• Optimize workload placement and reduce infrastructure waste.
• Develop internal tools for capacity signals.
• Design management solutions for infrastructure resources.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for governance.

Skills

Infrastructure management

Capacity planning

Workload optimization

Data analysis

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Tools

Cloud services (AWS, Azure)

Job description

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

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

• Lead the design and implementation of systems that enable cloud and OnPrem capacity forecasting, including planning models to support application onboarding, expansion, and repatriation.


• Partner with application and infrastructure teams to analyze workload characteristics, optimize placement decisions, and reduce infrastructure waste through intelligent workload optimization strategies.


• Develop and support internal tools and APIs that provide real‑time and forecasted capacity signals to hardware procurement, infrastructure owners, and finance partners.


• Design and build quota and subscription management solutions to enable fair, scalable consumption of shared infrastructure resources.


• Collaborate with Hardware Engineering to define data‑driven signals that guide purchase decisions for greenfield and brownfield environments.


• Support the onboarding of service providers by developing capacity insights and demand management capabilities that align with platform growth expectations.


• Partner closely with Finance, Procurement, and Cloud FinOps teams to align capacity forecasts with spend and budget expectations.


• Collaborate cross‑functionally to maintain a strong governance model for capacity consumption, allocation, and scaling practices.


• Share best practices across teams and mentor engineers on platform scalability, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or capacity engineering in large‑scale enterprise or hybrid cloud environments.


• Demonstrated expertise in building capacity planning models, workload analysis frameworks, and forecasting pipelines for infrastructure management.


• Strong understanding of cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure), infrastructure provisioning workflows, and OnPrem hardware life cycles.


• 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.

Annual Salary

$110,000.00 – $230,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

THE GEICO PLEDGE

Great Company

At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers

We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture

We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi‑faced teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards

We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well‑being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• 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.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.