Staff SRE Engineer: Incident & Reliability Lead

Geico; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Staff Engineer in SRE to design, build, and operate high-performance, zero-downtime distributed platforms. You will lead incident management tooling, craft runbooks, and improve detection, troubleshooting, and recovery across critical services.

The role combines hands-on coding in Go/Java/Python with leading incident response, post-incident reviews, and cross-team collaboration to raise reliability and developer velocity.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Go, Java, Python and C# for production-grade apps.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Knative in cloud environments (Azure, AWS).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL and cloud-native services.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve enterprise-critical platforms.
• Design, develop, and operate automation, dashboards, and data pipelines for incident management.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Mentor engineers and lead design reviews.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Knative

Azure

AWS

GCP

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Staff Engineer in SRE to design, build, and operate high-performance, zero-downtime distributed platforms. You will lead incident management tooling, craft runbooks, and improve detection, troubleshooting, and recovery across critical services.

The role combines hands-on coding in Go/Java/Python with leading incident response, post-incident reviews, and cross-team collaboration to raise reliability and developer velocity.