Senior Staff Engineer

GEICO

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bethesda, MDRichardson, TX
Salary
$120,000–$260,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
7 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $207k
This role $190k
$103k most similar roles pay here $277k

This role pays less than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $170,950–$244,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $190k versus about $207k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Staff Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer The Senior Staff Engineer joins the Technology Operations Center to enhance application and platform resiliency through advanced site reliability engineering. This role focuses on building, operating, and troubleshooting high-performance distributed platforms while improving incident management tooling and processes. You will design and develop automation, self-service tools, data pipelines, and APIs to streamline on-call rotations, runbooks, and recovery procedures. The position requires technical leadership during high-severity incidents, where you will provide architectural judgment and guide root cause analysis. Key technologies include Go, Java, Python, C#, Kubernetes, and KNative within Azure and AWS environments. You will also utilize SQL, NoSQL, Spark, Trino, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, and PagerDuty. The role addresses the critical business problem of maintaining high availability for customer-facing services by reducing time to detect and recover from incidents through automated systems and engineering excellence.

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What you'll do

  • Design and operate automation tools, dashboards, and data pipelines to scale incident management and on-call processes.
  • Build shared services and APIs to standardize incident response and reduce systemic operational risk.
  • Act as a technical leader and escalation point during high-severity incidents to guide troubleshooting and recovery.
  • Lead post-incident reviews and root cause analysis to drive systemic reliability improvements.
  • Develop and maintain operational runbooks, triage models, and resilience practices across multiple integration points.
  • Conduct complex design and architecture reviews for distributed systems across various engineering teams.
  • Mentor engineers through technical leadership, code reviews, and coaching on operational excellence.
  • Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation to provide production support for mission-critical platforms.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in platform, reliability, backend, or distributed systems.
  • 8+ years of experience with architecture, design, system reliability, scalability, and technical leadership for production systems.
  • 6+ years of experience with open-source frameworks, modern engineering practices, or platform technologies.
  • 4+ years of experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, or other cloud service providers in complex hybrid environments.
  • Hands-on proficiency in Go, Java, Python, and C# for building full-stack applications on Kubernetes and serverless technologies.
  • Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases, data pipelines (Spark, Trino), observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk), and PagerDuty.
  • Proficiency in AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot (preferred).

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