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We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.\nWhen 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.\nStaff Engineer, Software Engineering (SRE Availability and Incident Management)\nPosition Description\nOur Staff Engineer works with Junior and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems, and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy 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 their domain.\nPosition Responsibilities\nAs a Staff Engineer, you will:\nFocus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise\n\nCollaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems\n\nDevelop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains\n\nAccountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions\n\nUtilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services\n\nBe a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives\n\nConsistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams\n\nAnalyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans\n\nDetermine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning\n\nQualifications\nExemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap\n\nExperience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production\n\nTrack-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals\n\nExperience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code\n\nIn-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms\n\nExperience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches\n\nAbility to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment\n\nKnowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)\n\nFluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design\n\nExperience with Microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs\n\nExperience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems\n\nFluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework\n\nExperience in leveraging PowerShell scripting\n\nExperience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal\n\nExperience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments\n\nIn depth knowledge of Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services including the Azure platform and its native services\n\nExperience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth\n\nExperience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc.)\n\nAble to design and develop ALM features\n\nExperience with development and management of EAP\n\nExperience\n10+ years of professional software development experience (focus on SRE and Incident/Change Management)\n\n8+ years of experience with architecture and design\n\n6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks\n\n4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service\n\n5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment preferred\n\n2+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing preferred\n\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience\n\nAnnual Salary\n$100,000.00 - $230,000.00The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.\nAt this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.The GEICO Pledge:\nGreat 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.\nWe’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.\nGreat 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.\nGreat 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.\nAs 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.\nGreat Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.\nComprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.\nFinancial 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.\nAccess to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.\nSupports 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.\nThe equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.\nGEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. 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