[Hiring] Senior Staff Engineer @GEICO

Role Description

GEICO is seeking an experienced Software Engineer who is passionate about building high-performance, maintainable, and resilient platforms and applications. This role is integral to our ongoing transformation—moving from a traditional IT model to an engineering-driven organization that emphasizes reliability, scalability, and automation.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) blends software engineering and systems administration to design, develop, and manage large-scale, highly available, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that GEICO’s services—both internal and customer-facing—meet reliability, uptime, and performance standards while enabling rapid iteration and continuous improvement.

As an SRE at GEICO, you will tackle the unique challenges of operating at scale, leveraging expertise in coding and large-scale system design. You will also participate in on-call rotations, providing incident response, troubleshooting, and post-mortem analysis to improve system reliability and minimize operational impact.

At GEICO, we foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence. We value diversity, problem-solving, and risk-taking in a blame-free environment, empowering engineers to innovate while receiving mentorship and support.

Qualifications

• Expertise in at least two modern programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C, C++), and object-oriented design.
• Strong ownership and accountability with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Hands-on experience in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Experience managing distributed systems in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-based deployments.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-scale environment with a problem-solving mindset.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, and infrastructure management.
• 8+ years of experience as either a SRE or DevOps team member.
• 8+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid cloud environments.
• 8+ years of experience with open-source frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience with system architecture and design.
• 5+ years of experience of being in an OnCall rotation.

Benefits

• Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
• Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
• Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
• Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.