GEICO · 23 hours ago
Staff Engineer - Capacity Planning and Management
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$110K/yr - $230K/yr
8+ years expGEICO is a leading insurance company that values innovation and customer satisfaction. They are seeking a Staff Engineer in Capacity Engineering to develop and scale capacity management solutions, ensuring efficient infrastructure provisioning and supporting application growth and modernization efforts.
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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
Qualification
Required
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
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
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
GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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unknown1996-01-01Acquired
Leadership Team
Todd Combs
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Clayton Johnson
Sr. Director of Product Management
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