Senior Engineer

## Senior EngineerApply: Hybrid: Bethesda, MD: Full time: Posted Today: R0066041**Why Join GEICO?**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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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 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. Position Description 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. Position Responsibilities As a Senior Engineer, you will: 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 a 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 Qualifications 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 Advanceed 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 naitive environments like Azure and AWS Deep knowledge of devop pipelines, Helm charts and Kubernetes Experience 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 centerExperience with APISIX or other API Gateways is a plus Education Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience**Annual Salary**$105,000.00 - $215,000.00The 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.At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. #J-18808-Ljbffr