GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the open-source messaging and event streaming domain.

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning
• Take on-call and operation support

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design, data pipeline and architectures, scalable distributed systems.
• Fluent in at least one OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, etc.
• Experience in atleast one open-source messaging and event streaming platforms like Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ etc. with emphasis on building enterprise scale platforms.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be a plus
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus will be a plus
• Familiarity with other messaging and event solutions like Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hub will be a plus

Experience

• 6+ years of professional experience.
• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or similar cloud service preferred

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience