Senior Staff Engineer

GEICO

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto, CAChicago, ILDallas, TXBethesda, MD
Salary: $130,000–$260,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 8 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Similar $208k

This role $195k

$114k most similar roles pay here $276k

This role pays less than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $170,950–$244,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $195k versus about $208k 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 97 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $110,000–$230,000 across 95 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Engineer

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As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for critical software development systems while establishing a strong culture of ownership across the organization. You will be responsible for the long-term technical direction of management tools, defining system orchestration patterns that scale across diverse architectures, and making architectural tradeoffs to balance reliability with development speed. Your daily work involves integrating vendor and bespoke platforms to unify developer experiences and connecting unstructured data to quantify the impact of technology and AI against business goals. You will build systems using Golang, microservices, and Kubernetes while mentoring engineers and developing shared platforms. The role focuses on solving complex problems in distributed systems, specifically addressing fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design within a large-scale environment to ensure high-velocity development and reliable product outcomes across the entire technology landscape.

What does a Engineer earn in California?

Median $208000 from 107 postings across 27 companies.

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Skills

Golang Kubernetes Microservices Distributed Systems Workflow Orchestration Developer Tooling Observability Platform as a Service Fault Tolerance

What you'll do

Own the long-term technical direction for tools used as the management plane for team structure and roadmap delivery.
Define and evolve system orchestration patterns that scale across diverse application architectures and maturity levels.
Make architectural tradeoffs to balance reliability, operability, and development speed across multiple products.
Codify team standards and practices into a source of truth for the entire engineering organization.
Connect developer access to permissions to provide seamless, high-velocity development experiences.
Lead organizations in planning and executing work within an AI-first era.
Quantify the impact of technology and AI against business goals using structured and unstructured data.
Mentor and grow engineers across multiple teams while fostering a culture of ownership.

What we're looking for

10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Deep expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design.
Proven track record of organization-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.
Experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration (preferred).
Experience with Golang, microservices, Kubernetes, and front end (preferred).
Hands-on experience building and improving developer tooling (preferred).

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