Senior Manager, Staff SW Engineering - (Platform Engineering) - *HYBRID*

GEICO

Remote Hybrid

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Work type
Remote
Location
Bethesda, MD
Salary
$130,000–$300,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago

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This role $215k
$110k most similar roles pay here $320k

This role pays more than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $175,350–$242,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $215k versus about $209k for comparable roles.

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About GEICO

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is one of the largest auto insurers in the United States, offering affordable auto, home, renters, and other personal insurance products. Industry: Insurance

GEICO currently has 136 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $110,000–$230,000 across 136 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Staff SW Engineering - (Platform Engineering) - *HYBRID*

As a Senior Staff Engineering Manager at GEICO, you will lead the File Exchange Platform and Unified Platform Experience teams, driving modernization efforts from ticket-based operations to self-service portals and CMDB-driven certification workflows while ensuring NYDFS/PCI compliance. You’ll also advance the Unified Control Plane to production readiness with audit trails and observability-as-code. Responsibilities include defining architectural standards, managing a team of over ten members, and overseeing project delivery across public and private clouds using Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, and other languages. Key skills required are experience in cloud computing, distributed systems, secure file transfer technologies, CI/CD toolchains, and performance assessments. This role demands expertise in platform engineering practices like IaC (Terraform) and developer portals to deliver high availability and geo-distributed resiliency across data centers.

What you'll do

  • Lead the modernization of GEICO's tier-1 secure file transfer service to a self-service portal.
  • Define and enforce architectural standards for high performance and reliability in platform engineering.
  • Drive shared engineering outcomes with UCP partners to advance it to a production-ready tier-1 platform.
  • Standardize onboarding, provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management across public and private cloud environments.
  • Initiate and support the performance evaluation of team members to motivate higher achievement.

What we're looking for

  • At least 5 years of experience in designing and operating enterprise file transfer platforms or developer experience platforms.
  • Strong knowledge in distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
  • Proficient in programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript.
  • Experience driving adoption of platform engineering practices including IaC and unified control-plane architectures.
  • Proven skills in secure file transfer technologies, compliance automation, and CMDB-driven certification workflows.
  • 6+ years of coding experience with a focus on building scalable and robust products.
  • Hands-on supervisory experience managing technical teams of at least 10 personnel.

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