Senior Software Engineer - Qualification & Delivery - Release Platform

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. 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 through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.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 Job Summary GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in building the next-generation Release Platform and DevOps Tooling to empower our 3000+ engineers in the organization. You will design and develop robust, scalable frameworks and tools that enable policy-driven, automated, reliable and observable software delivery across a large enterprise environment. As a senior engineer, you will design developer experiences, create self-service capabilities, and implement advanced workflow automation and governance controls, as well as observability of release pipelines. You will also mentor junior engineers, partner closely with platform, security, and infrastructure teams, and help drive adoption of open-source technologies to improve developer productivity and system resilience. Position Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain internal Release Platform services and tooling to enable automated, robust, scalable, and observable software delivery workflows. Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using tools like Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions. Develop policy-as-code governance frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enforce deployment rules, approvals, and compliance gates. Design self-service capabilities for developers, including standardized deployment workflows, configuration automation, and security integration. Collaborate with Cyber and Release Control teams to embed security guardrails, change gates, and auditability into the software delivery process. Implement observability best practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing to improve deployment visibility and reliability. Implement and enforce deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, rolling updates) and fail-safe rollback mechanisms. Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, and advocate for engineering excellence across the team. Collaborate across infrastructure, platform, SRE, and application teams to deliver cohesive developer experiences. Continuously explore and integrate open-source innovations to enhance platform reliability, security, and developer productivity. Qualifications Strong hands-on experience developing internal developer platforms and DevOps tooling for large-scale organizations. Expertise in Python, Golang (Go), .NET and TypeScript, React for building scalable platform services and developer automation tools. Deep experience with Kubernetes, including namespace management, service discovery, network policies, ingress/egress management, and service mesh Strong proficiency with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD platforms. Practical experience implementing GitOps workflows Hands-on writing scripts to automate routine tasks using bash, Python scripting Advanced understanding of deployment strategies (blue/green, feature flag) and building resilient, automated rollout processes. Hands-on experience building Policy as Code frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego. Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, ingress controllers. Experience in multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) with a focus on containerized deployments and cloud-native services. Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills for deployment failures, system performance issues, and network troubleshooting. Education Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience. Annual Salary $105,000.00 - $230,000.00 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. At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new 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. 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. Opportunities for Students & Grads Learn more about GEICO Benefits #J-18808-Ljbffr GEICO