Distinguished Engineer - Business Continuity, Governance, and Platform Resilience

Geico Insurance•Richardson, TX

71d•$140,000 - $300,000

About The Position

GEICO is seeking an experienced Distinguished Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms and applications. You will help drive our enterprise transformation by establishing engineering excellence as a core mission, with a specific focus on organizational resilience, strategic risk management, and rigorous technical governance. This role demands mastery of reliability, availability, software engineering, and best practices in BCDR. Our Distinguished Engineer works with Principal and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, dramatically improve, and enhance existing systems, and identify new opportunities to apply deep knowledge to solve critical enterprise problems. You will lead the technical strategy and execution of a roadmap that increases product delivery velocity while ensuring absolute platform resilience. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of technology, risk management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, and strategic planning to design and implement resilient systems that safeguard our business from potential threats, enforce organizational compliance, and ensure predictable operation.

Requirements

Fluency and specialization in software development and best practices using modern programming languages.
Deep knowledge of SRE practices, methodologies, and principles, along with a solid understanding of cloud-based compute, network, and storage technologies.
Strong background in incident management (a core function of Case Management in platform operations), including the ability to create incident response playbooks, runbooks, and perform rigorous post-incident analysis to drive continuous improvement in reliability and availability.
Expertise in distributed systems architecture, replication topologies, and distributed consistency patterns to meet stringent RTO and RPO requirements.
Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management, storage, and optimization strategies for resilience and cloud cost efficiency.
In-depth knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture, IaaS and PaaS technologies, container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud efficiency.
Experience with infrastructure automation, tooling, and configuration management frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a passion for mentoring and fostering professional growth.
Visionary thinker with the ability to anticipate future challenges and opportunities in resilience and governance.
Proven track record of successfully leading, designing, and delivering complex engineering projects in large and complex organizations.
12+ years of professional software development experience
10+ years of experience with architecture and design
6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Responsibilities

Enterprise Resilience and BCDR Strategy
Governance, Standards, and Architectural Oversight
Operational Excellence and Case Management
Leadership and Strategic Influence

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.

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