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# Manager - Staff Engineering (CEPH, Storage Platform) *HYBRID*

- **Company:** GEICO
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon S3, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Ceph (Software), System Availability, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=be0bc9a6bc6ea308

## About the Role

You will manage a team of 8-10 engineers, drive platform strategy, and deliver scalable, reliable and secure storage solutions. This role requires strong experience in platform development, distributed systems, and storage technologies, along with proven people management experience., * 3+ years of engineering management experience

 * 8+ years of software engineering experience in platform or infrastructure teams
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required
 * Strong experience in distributed systems and platform development
 * Hands-on experience building and operating storage platforms
 * Experience with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, containers, APIs)

Required Expertise

 * Strong experience with Ceph (RGW, RADOS) is required
 * Experience with object storage and S3-compatible architectures
 * Solid understanding of data durability, replication, and consistency models

## Description

* Lead and manage a team of 8-10 engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management
 * Define and deliver the roadmap for the Object Storage platform
 * Guide the design and development of scalable, reliable and secure storage systems
 * Ensure high availability, performance, and operational excellence of the platform
 * Drive best practices in automation, monitoring, and incident management
 * Partner with cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with business needs


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