Senior Software Engineer - Qualification & Delivery - Release Platform

GEICO • Bethesda, MD

9d • $105,000 - $215,000 • Remote

About The Position

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in building the next-generation Release Platform and DevOps Tooling to empower its 3000+ engineers. The role involves designing and developing robust, scalable frameworks and tools for automated, reliable, and observable software delivery in a large enterprise environment. Responsibilities include designing developer experiences, creating self-service capabilities, implementing advanced workflow automation and governance controls, and ensuring observability of release pipelines. The engineer will also mentor junior staff, collaborate with platform, security, and infrastructure teams, and promote the adoption of open-source technologies to enhance developer productivity and system resilience.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience developing internal developer platforms and DevOps tooling for large-scale organizations.
• Expertise in Python, Golang (Go), .NET and TypeScript, React for building scalable platform services and developer automation tools.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, including namespace management, service discovery, network policies, ingress/egress management, and service mesh
• Strong proficiency with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD platforms.
• Practical experience implementing GitOps workflows
• Hands-on writing scripts to automate routine tasks using bash, Python scripting
• Advanced understanding of deployment strategies (blue/green, feature flag) and building resilient, automated rollout processes.
• Hands-on experience building Policy as Code frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, ingress controllers.
• Experience in multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) with a focus on containerized deployments and cloud-native services.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills for deployment failures, system performance issues, and network troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain internal Release Platform services and tooling to enable automated, robust, scalable, and observable software delivery workflows.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using tools like Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions.
• Develop policy-as-code governance frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enforce deployment rules, approvals, and compliance gates.
• Design self-service capabilities for developers, including standardized deployment workflows, configuration automation, and security integration.
• Collaborate with Cyber and Release Control teams to embed security guardrails, change gates, and auditability into the software delivery process.
• Implement observability best practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing to improve deployment visibility and reliability.
• Implement and enforce deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, rolling updates) and fail-safe rollback mechanisms.
• Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, and advocate for engineering excellence across the team.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, platform, SRE, and application teams to deliver cohesive developer experiences.
• Continuously explore and integrate open-source innovations to enhance platform reliability, security, and developer productivity.

Benefits

• 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match
• Performance and recognition-based incentives
• Tuition assistance
• Mental healthcare
• Fertility assistance
• Adoption assistance
• Workplace flexibility
• GEICO Flex program (ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree