Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering (HYBRID)

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Staff Engineer to join our engineering organization and drive technical excellence across our platform.

This is a pivotal role for a seasoned engineer who combines deep hands-on expertise with the ability to influence technical direction at the organizational level.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will be architecting scalable infrastructure, mentoring engineering teams, and applying cutting-edge AI solutions to solve complex, business-critical problems. You will work at the intersection of infrastructure, data systems, and applied artificial intelligence, ensuring our technology stack is robust, efficient, and positioned for future growth., As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:

• Define and drive the technical vision for infrastructure and AI-powered systems across the organization
• Design, architect, and implement highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Lead technical decision-making on critical projects, balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability
• Establish and champion engineering best practices, design patterns, and coding standards
• Architect and optimize compute infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Design and implement database solutions (relational and NoSQL) that scale to meet business demands
• Drive cloud infrastructure strategy, including containerization, orchestration, and serverless architectures
• Ensure system reliability, observability, and operational excellence across all platform components
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to apply AI/ML to solve high-impact business problems
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies and evaluate their applicability to business challenges
• Mentor and grow senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
• Conduct design reviews and provide constructive feedback on technical proposals
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and business stakeholders
• Lead complex, ambiguous projects from conception through delivery
• Drive pragmatic trade-offs between technical debt, velocity, and quality
• Contribute hands-on to critical codebases when needed
• Champion operational excellence and incident management best practices, Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
• 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.

• Deep expertise in infrastructure systems, including compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services), networking, and storage
• Strong database experience across relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
• Demonstrated experience applying AI to solve real-world problems in production environments
• Expert-level proficiency in at least two programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Rust)
• Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure OR AWS) and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and deployment automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD)
• Background in building real-time data processing systems (Kafka, Flink, Spark)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Experience working in a platform engineering team, building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services, * 10+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of increasing technical scope and impact
• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• Hands-on work experience coaching and mentor personnel in a technical environment
• 5+ years of experience with one of the public clouds - AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 5+ years of experience working in a platform engineering team, building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs. We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives. Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career - and your potential - in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels. Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose. As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.