Job Description
Our Staff Software Engineer is a lead member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of reliability and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge experience to improve application’s performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud/infrastructure architecture, and leverage engineering solutions to solve operational problems.
Position Responsibilities:
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:
- Collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way.
- Influence and build vision with product owners to ship quality products in a faster pace.
- Have technical experience in Capacity benchmarking, application profiling and tuning through open-source technologies.
- Take data driven approach to make decision around capacity needs, application availability and reliability.
- Propose new design and develop solutions to solve complex problems in application resiliency and availability
- Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Have Strong problem-solving skills
Qualifications:
- Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
- Strong understanding on service level objective (SLO’s) and Service level indicators (SLIs)
- Fluency and Specialization with any one of the programming languages such as Python, Java or C#
- Strong understanding of compute resources and hardware profiles both in private and public cloud.
- Expert in Container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), container runtimes and optimization
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts (continuous delivery and infrastructure as code) and Cloud Architecture
- Experience in application monitoring tools and profiling tools (e.g. CPU, Memory profiling tools)
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Experience:
- 6+ years of professional Software development experience
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks – capacity modeling/benchmarking, application performance benchmarking, auto-recovery/auto-remediation tools
- 3+ years of experience with one of the public cloud - Azure, AWS, GCP, or another cloud service
- 1+ years of people management experience
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
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:
As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our
Total Rewards Program
- to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:
- Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
- Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Training and Licensures
- 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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