GEICO is the second-largest private auto insurer in the United States and has built a brand recognized for its memorable Gecko advertisements and its commitment
Senior Staff Engineer
Location
Washington
Posted
17 days ago
Salary
$130K - $260K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Staff Engineer
GEICO
• Own the long-term technical direction for our tools as GEICO’s orchestration platform for failover, rebuild, and restore workflows. • Define and evolve orchestration patterns that scale across diverse application architectures and maturity levels. • Make architectural tradeoffs balancing reliability, operability, and adoption cost. • Serve as the top-level technical escalation point for complex orchestration and recovery failures. • Establish clear standards for modeling failure, retries, timeouts, and compensations. • Drive consistency in how teams design and execute recovery workflows. • Identify systemic reliability risks and lead cross-org initiatives to mitigate them. • Partner with SRE, infrastructure, and platform teams to align our tools with enterprise reliability goals. • Influence teams that do not report to you through clear technical reasoning and trusted leadership. • Set expectations and contracts between our tools and provider systems to clarify ownership of failures. • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers in distributed systems thinking and fault-tolerant design. • Act as a technical ambassador for our tools with leadership and peer orgs. • Help balance feature development, adoption support, and production stability with your team's capacity.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design.
- Proven track record of org-level technical leadership beyond a single team.
- Strong ability to reason about and design for partial failure.
- Experience shaping shared platforms or frameworks used by many teams.
- Strongly Preferred Experience with durable execution, or workflow orchestration.
- Hands-on experience designing recovery, failover, or disaster-recovery workflows.
- History of working through adoption challenges for platform teams.
- Ability to translate low-level technical risks into clear business and reliability outcomes.
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.
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