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GEICO

Sr. Software Engineer

On site

Chevy chase, United states

$ 215,000 /year

Junior

Full Time

10-11-2025

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Skills

Communication Leadership Adaptability Python Java Go SQL Big Data MySQL Cassandra PostgreSQL CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Monitoring Ansible Test Test Automation Research Architecture Windows Databases apache git Organization Azure AWS Software Development Analytics GCP Terraform Prometheus Grafana Infrastructure as Code Windows Server

Job Specifications

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 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
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 across teams
Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate 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 etc.
Experience in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions, Advanced data analytics using Open-Source technologies are a big plus.
Experience building distributed systems
Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis
Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment
Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster
Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus
Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
Knowledge in ML and AI technologies
Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

Experience

4+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
3+ years of experience with design
3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data ce

About the Company

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) offers a variety of insurance such as vehicle, property, business, life, umbrella, travel, pet, jewelry and more. The company, which was founded in 1936, is the third-largest auto insurer in the United States and insures vehicles in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. GEICO, a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, constantly strives to make lives better by protecting people against unexpected events while saving them money and providing an outstanding customer e... Know more