Senior Manager, Staff SW Engineering - (Platform Engineering) - *HYBRID*

Senior Staff Engineering Manager

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.

Position Responsibilities

• Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
• Lead the File Exchange Platform team responsible for GEICO's tier-1 secure file transfer service (~3M monthly transfers). Drive modernization from ticket-based operations to a self-service portal, and CMDB-driven self-certification, deliver high availability and geo-distributed resiliency across data centers, and meet NYDFS/PCI compliance and vulnerability SLAs while reducing onboarding cycle time and support burden.
• Lead the Unified Platform Experience and DOCAT team that defines the paved road for PaaS service providers — Platform SDKs (Python, Go, TypeScript, Java), Platform Client UI/UX, IaC as a Service. Standardize onboarding, provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management across public and private cloud; drive onboarding user experience; and deliver blueprint-IaC solutions for consistent, defect-free service integration.
• Drive shared engineering outcomes with UCP partners — advancing UCP to a production-ready tier-1 platform with audit trails, observability-as-code, governance and FinOps integration.
• Define and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure the platform meets the highest standards of performance and reliability.
• Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• Report on your team's progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
• Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals
• Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals

Qualifications

• Software and system design knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
• Knowledge of distributed systems and highly available, scalable architectures such as active/active, multimaster, in and across geo sharding, etc.
• Development and Management experience in one or all of the following:
• At least 5 years of experience in designing, developing, and operating enterprise file transfer platforms, developer experience platforms, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) delivery systems.
• Strong knowledge and skills in distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Python, C#, .NET, Go, or TypeScript.
• Experience driving enterprise-wide adoption of platform engineering practices including IaC (Terraform), developer portals, SDK-based onboarding, and unified control-plane architectures.
• Proven experience with secure file transfer technologies (SFTP, key management (PGP), compliance automation (NYDFS, PCI), and CMDB-driven certification workflows.
• Experience with software development, software delivery lifecycle, application modernization, DevOps, Service/Infrastructure as Code and Operations
• Basic understanding and managing CI/CD toolchain products like Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube and IaC tools like Terraform.
• Knowledge of API, Microservices, network and security architectures and design patterns
• Demonstrated conflict management, decision making and negotiation skills
• Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
• Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action.

Experience

• 6+ years coding experience
• 5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising 10+ personnel in a technical environment
• 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience

Annual Salary

$130,000.00 - $300,000.00. 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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

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.