Sr Staff Engineer- (Java, Microservices, RDBMS, Kubernetes) - Hybrid

GEICO•Seattle, WA

1d•$110,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineer to build & scale next generation file transfer and file sharing platform to cater file sharing services within GEICO & between GEICO & its trusted external partners. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers. Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

Requirements

Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and development of multi-tier distributed systems.
Fluent in at least two OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, etc.
Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
Experience with continuous delivery 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
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)
10+ years of professional experience in software engineering
8+ years of experience in building scalable 3 tier production application touching millions of customers.
4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure and DevOps practices.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Nice To Haves

Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus
Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
Familiarity with other messaging and event solutions like Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hub is a plus.
6+ years of experience with open-source frameworks is desired

Responsibilities

Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to design, build, productionize an enterprise application
Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
Influence and educate leadership at all levels
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, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning
Collaborate with application teams and business partners to standardize file sharing practices.
Partner with them to scale product from 0 to 1

Benefits

Great Company
Great Careers
Great Culture
Great Rewards
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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