GEICO · 10 hours ago
Staff Engineer – Reliability Engineering
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$110K/yr - $230K/yr
6+ years expGEICO is a company that offers quality coverage to millions of customers, thriving through innovation to exceed expectations. The Staff Engineer will work with senior engineers to innovate, build, and enhance systems, focusing on improving reliability and minimizing operational impact.
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Responsibilities
Focus on multiple areas and provide strategic and technical guidance
Utilize programming languages like Go, Python, Java, .Net or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases
Work with container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (K8S), OpenStack and a variety of Azure tools and services
Architect and develop cloud-native applications using Azure Services
Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
Ensure the quality, performance and usability of the engineering solutions
Serve as a mentor and thought leader, coaching engineers and Influence and educate executives
Drive best practices for platform reliability, disaster recovery, monitoring, alerting, and incident management
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Platform engineering, DevOps, SREs) to integrate, test, and improve platform reliability and performance
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
Required
Experience in at least two modern programming languages (Go, Python, Java, .NET) and object-oriented design
Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with No-SQL databases like ONgDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc
Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) or large-scale private data center environments
Experience managing distributed systems in public, private or hybrid cloud environments
Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)
Passion for automation and reducing manual operations using tools like Terraform and Ansible
Familiarity with configuration management and orchestration tools like Helm, Puppet, Spinnaker
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code(IaC), and cloud-based deployments
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)
Ability to operate in fast-paced, high-scale environment with a problem-solving mindset
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
Advance knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript is preferred
Knowledge in ML and AI technologies 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
GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown1996-01-01Acquired
Leadership Team
Todd Combs
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Clayton Johnson
Sr. Director of Product Management
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