Senior Staff Engineer

🕒 May 20

☕ Washington – Remote

☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $130k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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GEICO

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1936

💸 Finance

Finance • Insurance

GEICO is a well-known American auto insurance company, providing coverage to a wide range of customers. As a leading provider of car insurance, GEICO is known for its innovative marketing and customer-centric services, delivering affordable insurance options. The company utilizes a user-friendly website for managing policies and claims, applying necessary online privacy measures to protect personal data and improve user experience. While primarily focused on auto insurance, GEICO also offers other types of insurance, including homeowner and renter policies.

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 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.