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GEICO

Senior Staff Engineer

GEICO

. Provide technical leadership for critical software development systems .

Posted 9/28/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design. Proven ability to provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and shape shared platforms while driving data-driven decision making.

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Technical LeadershipLarge-Scale Distributed SystemsGolangKubernetesWorkflow Orchestration

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Hard Skills
Fault ToleranceResilience DesignRecovery DesignMicroservicesDeveloper ToolingData-Driven Decision MakingObservabilitySuccess Metrics
Soft Skills
MentoringOwnershipCollaboration
Industry Keywords
AI-First EraSystem OrchestrationApplication ArchitecturesTeam StructureRoadmap Delivery

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Distributed SystemsKubernetesMicroservicesGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Provide technical leadership for critical software development systems
  • Establish a strong culture of ownership
  • Set the technical direction of multiple products and systems
  • Shape how GEICO Tech develops software and delivers impact
  • Build thoughtfully designed, scalable systems
  • Define culture from team to company
  • Mentor and grow engineers within and across teams
  • Own the long-term technical direction for tools serving as GEICO’s management plane for team structure and roadmap delivery
  • Define and evolve system orchestration patterns across diverse application architectures and maturity levels
  • Make architectural tradeoffs balancing reliability, operability, and development speed
  • Integrate vendor and bespoke platforms to unify developer experiences
  • Develop and mature software development and system ownership across Tech
  • Codify team standards and practices into a source of truth for team organization
  • Connect team-based access across agentic development to permissions for seamless, high-velocity development experiences
  • Lead how organizations across Tech plan and execute work in an AI-first era
  • Connect structured and unstructured data to quantify technology and AI impact against business goals and KPIs
  • Cultivate an engineering culture that recognizes engineers for product success and reliability
  • Build systems while accelerating the growth and transformation of GEICO Tech

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • Deep expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design
  • Proven track record of org-level technical leadership beyond a single team
  • Strong ability to reason about and design for partial failure
  • Experience shaping shared platforms or frameworks used by many teams
  • Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration
  • Experience with Golang, microservices, and Kubernetes
  • Front end experience nice to have
  • Hands-on experience building and improving developer tooling
  • Data-driven decision making, from observability to success metrics
  • Ability to translate low-level technical risks into clear business and reliability outcomes
  • Must not require new employment authorization sponsorship from GEICO

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Personalized development programs
  • Mentorship
  • Certification assistance
  • Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success
  • Competitive pay
  • Benefits
  • Flexibility to support your well-being and future
  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities