Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime database 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 creating a culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.
Position Description
Our Sr. Staff Engineer works with our Staff Engineers and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems. You will lead the strategy 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 database platform domain, specifically Cassandra.
Position Responsibilities
As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will:
Collaborate with managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
Develop and execute technical software development strategy for our database platform services
Utilize Python and Golang
Be very familiar with relational and non-relational databases. For this role, expert knowledge of Cassandra is required.
Have a deep understanding of container orchestration including Docker and Kubernetes and have experience implementing database workloads in containers.
Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering community.
Influence and educate leadership at all levels
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Qualifications
You are customer-centric, always keeping the customer’s experience at the forefront of the conversation
You are transparent and decisive
You have a prejudice for action and an iterative approach to software
You learn from your mistakes and pass the knowledge on to others
Experience with continuous delivery 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
Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
Experience with micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
Expert experience with software architecture and design
Experience with Prometheus and Grafana
Proficient in HA database architectures and tools
Bonus for experience with the K8ssandra Kubernetes operator
Experience
10+ years of professional experience in software development, programming languages and database infrastructure, installation, configuration and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
8+ years of experience with architecture and design
6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
$130,000.00 - $260,000.00The 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.
Benefits:
As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:
*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.
**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.
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.
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