Senior Software Engineer - Qualification & Delivery - Release Platform

GEICO
Palo Alto, CA, United States
3 months ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
$105,000.0 - $215,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

.NET Framework Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Bash Shell Cloud Computing Code Review Computer Networks Continuous Integration Software Debugging Domain Name System (DNS) Github Python (Programming Language)
+25 more
Network Troubleshooting Open Source Technology Azure DevOps Pipelines Service Discovery Software Engineering TCP/IP TypeScript Policy as Code Data Logging Scripting Google Cloud Load Balancing DevOps Tools - Open-source ReactJS Istio System Availability Delivery Pipeline Multi-Cloud Containerization Kubernetes Information Technology Deployment Automation Serverless Computing Jenkins Golang

Job description

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in building the next-generation Release Platform and DevOps Tooling to empower our 3000+ engineers in the organization. You will design and develop robust, scalable frameworks and tools that enable policy-driven, automated, reliable and observable software delivery across a large enterprise environment.

As a senior engineer, you will design developer experiences, create self-service capabilities, and implement advanced workflow automation and governance controls, as well as observability of release pipelines. You will also mentor junior engineers, partner closely with platform, security, and infrastructure teams, and help drive adoption of open-source technologies to improve developer productivity and system resilience.

Position Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain internal Release Platform services and tooling to enable automated, robust, scalable, and observable software delivery workflows.
  • Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using tools like Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions.
  • Develop policy-as-code governance frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enforce deployment rules, approvals, and compliance gates.
  • Design self-service capabilities for developers, including standardized deployment workflows, configuration automation, and security integration.
  • Collaborate with Cyber and Release Control teams to embed security guardrails, change gates, and auditability into the software delivery process.
  • Implement observability best practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing to improve deployment visibility and reliability.
  • Implement and enforce deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, rolling updates) and fail-safe rollback mechanisms.
  • Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, and advocate for engineering excellence across the team.
  • Collaborate across infrastructure, platform, SRE, and application teams to deliver cohesive developer experiences.
  • Continuously explore and integrate open-source innovations to enhance platform reliability, security, and developer productivity., 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.

Requirements

Do you have experience in TypeScript?, Do you have a Master’s degree?, * Strong hands-on experience developing internal developer platforms and DevOps tooling for large-scale organizations.

  • Expertise in Python, Golang (Go), .NET and TypeScript, React for building scalable platform services and developer automation tools.
  • Deep experience with Kubernetes, including namespace management, service discovery, network policies, ingress/egress management, and service mesh
  • Strong proficiency with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD platforms.
  • Practical experience implementing GitOps workflows
  • Hands-on writing scripts to automate routine tasks using bash, Python scripting
  • Advanced understanding of deployment strategies (blue/green, feature flag) and building resilient, automated rollout processes.
  • Hands-on experience building Policy as Code frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego.
  • Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, ingress controllers.
  • Experience in multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) with a focus on containerized deployments and cloud-native services.
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills for deployment failures, system performance issues, and network troubleshooting.

Education

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Health insurance
  • Adoption assistance
  • 401(k) 6% Match

About the company

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.

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, 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.

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