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GEICO · 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer - Governance

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$100K/yr - $230K/yr

6+ years exp

GEICO is a prominent insurance company dedicated to providing quality coverage and innovative solutions to its customers. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of high-performance platforms and applications, driving the transformation of their insurance business into a tech-focused organization. The role involves collaborating with various teams, executing technical strategies, and mentoring engineers to enhance their skills and processes.

Auto InsuranceFinancial ServicesGovernmentInsuranceInternetMobile

No H1B

Responsibilities

Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise

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

Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

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

Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

Willing to take on-call and operation support

Qualification

Complex system designData pipeline architectureDockerKubernetesOOP languages GoOOP languages PythonOpen-source softwareGovernancePolicy enginesWeb service integrationContinuous delivery (CI/CD)Big dataETL architectureCoachingMLAIOpen-source monitoring toolsCommunicationMentoringProblem-solving

Required

Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with governance and policy engines such as Cloud Custodian, Open Policy Agent (OPA)

Advance knowledge of at least one OOP languages such as Go or Python

Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc

Strong understanding of web service integration (REST/SOAP) and enterprise middleware integration tiers

Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis

Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code

Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment

Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)

Knowledge in big data, streaming data and ETL pipeline architecture

Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

Knowledge in ML and AI technologies

Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

6+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems

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 hybrid data center

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Preferred

Experience with open-source software is a plus

Benefits

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.

Company

GEICO

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GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.

Founded in 1936

Chase, Maryland, USA

10001+ employees