Senior Engineer

GEICO•Bethesda, MD

About The Position

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. Our Senior Engineer works with our Sr Staff Engineer and other Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead Project and Execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source Observability, Data platform domain.

Requirements

Good hands-on experience in building complex distributed system to process large scale telemetry and architectures to support the scale and performance, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
Advanced knowledge of at least one OOP language such as Java, Go, Python, etc.
Experience building distributed systems
Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis
Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
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)
Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
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)
Experience operating in cloud native environments like Azure and AWS
Deep knowledge of devops pipelines, Helm charts and Kubernetes
4+ years of professional experience in software development using a modern programming language like C++, Java, Python, or Golang
3+ years of experience with architecture and design
3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center

Nice To Haves

Experience with APISIX or other API Gateways is a plus

Responsibilities

Focus on Single or 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
Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
Be an executor as well as an active learner, helping to coach more junior engineers and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
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 operational support