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GEICO · 19 hours ago

Staff Engineer – Reliability Engineering

Austin, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $230K/yr

6+ years exp

GEICO 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.

Auto InsuranceFinancial ServicesGovernmentInsuranceInternetMobile

H1B Sponsored

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

GoPythonJavaAzureDockerKubernetesSQLNoSQLTerraformAnsibleCI/CDHTMLCSSJavaScriptMonitoring toolsSoft skills

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

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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

http://www.geico.com

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