Senior Staff Engineer

At the Senior Staff level, success is measured by durable impact across and beyond the Developer Engineer org, while leading and developing software. You will build systems while accelerating the growth and transformation of GEICO Tech.

• Own the long‑term technical direction for our tools as GEICO’s management plane for team structure and roadmap delivery.
• Define and evolve system orchestration patterns that scale across diverse application architectures and maturity levels.
• Make architectural tradeoffs balancing reliability, operability, and development speed.
• Integrate across vendor and bespoke platforms to unify developer experiences.

• Develop and mature software development and system ownership across Tech
• Codify team standards and practices into source of truth for team organization
• Connect team-based access across agentic development to permissions, to provide seamless, high velocity development experiences

• Lead how organizations across Tech, from pricing to Platform as a Service, plan and execute on work in an AI-first era
• Connect unstructured and unstructured data to quantify impact of technology & AI against business goals and KPIs
• Cultivate engineering culture that recognizes engineers for the success and reliability of their products

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large‑scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design.
• Proven track record of org‑level technical leadership beyond a single team.
• Strong ability to reason about and design for partial failure.
• Experience shaping shared platforms or frameworks used by many teams.

• Experience with durable execution, or workflow orchestration
• Experience with Golang, microservices, Kubernetes; front end experience nice to have
• Hands‑on experience building and improving developer tooling.
• Data-driven decision making, from observability to success metrics.
• Ability to translate low‑level technical risks into clear business and reliability outcomes.

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

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.

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GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.