Sr. Software Engineer

Position Summary 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 the 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 Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Observability Engineering domain Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions Be an executor as well as an active learner, helping to coach TDPs and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans 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 operation 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. Great understanding of open‑source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No‑SQL databases like Clickhouse, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc. Knowledge or Big data formats such as Parquet or Avro etc. Experience in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions, Advanced data analytics using Open‑Source technologies are a big plus. 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 partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production 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 Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log 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) Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster Experience in open‑source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus 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) Knowledge in ML and AI technologies Knowledge on Open‑source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus Experience 4+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems 4+ years of experience in open‑source frameworks 3+ years of experience with design 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center Education Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience Annual Salary $105,000.00 - $215,000.00 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. Benefits 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. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Dormont Manufacturing Co