Sr. Software Engineer
AI summary of the role
GEICO seeks a Senior Engineer to lead observability and data platform initiatives, driving the insurance business transformation from traditional IT to a tech organization.
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What you’ll do
- Lead technical roadmap execution to increase product delivery velocity and unlock new engineering capabilities
- Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Observability Engineering domain
- Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems
- Accountable for quality, usability, and performance of solutions
What you’ll bring
- 4+ years professional experience in software development, platform architecture, and infrastructure management
- 4+ years experience with open-source frameworks
- 3+ years experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center
- Good hands-on experience building complex distributed systems with Docker and Kubernetes
Technologies
Docker · Kubernetes · Java · Go · Python · MySQL · PostgreSQL · Clickhouse · Cassandra · Apache Trino · Grafana · Prometheus
About Geico
Third-largest US auto insurer, selling personal auto and property coverage direct-to-consumer to millions of drivers; a wholly owned Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary.
Acquired · 5000+ people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
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 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
More from the job description
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. 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 Project and Execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capab [... source excerpt omitted ...] 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 a 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 [... source excerpt omitted ...] valuate 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
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