Senior Staff Engineer

GEICO

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Work type: Remote
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: $130,000–$260,000 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $195k

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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 join the Site Reliability Engineering team to build high-performance, resilient platforms while transitioning the organization toward an engineering-driven model focused on scalability and automation. You will develop the overall strategy for enterprise Change and Approval Management, lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, and serve as a mentor and thought leader for engineers and executives. Your daily work involves architecting cloud-native applications using Azure services, managing distributed systems in hybrid environments, and participating in on-call rotations to perform incident response and root cause analysis. You will utilize programming languages such as Go, Python, and Java alongside SQL/NoSQL databases. The technical stack includes Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, while your core responsibilities involve managing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code to ensure system reliability.

What does a Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $172500 from 43 postings across 11 companies.

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Skills

Go Python Java SQL NoSQL Docker Kubernetes OpenStack Azure AWS GCP Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Loki CI/CD Infrastructure as Code Site Reliability Engineering SRE DevOps

What you'll do

Develop and drive the overall strategy for enterprise Change and Approval Management.
Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams while providing strategic guidance.
Build cloud-native applications using Azure services, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenStack.
Develop software using programming languages such as Go, Python, or Java with SQL/NoSQL databases.
Manage distributed systems in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.
Implement monitoring, logging, and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
Participate in on-call rotations to provide incident response and conduct post-mortem analysis.
Mentor engineers and serve as a thought leader to influence executive decisions.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
10+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, and infrastructure management.
8+ years of experience as either a SRE or DevOps team member.
8+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid cloud environments.
8+ years of experience with open-source frameworks.
5+ years of experience with system architecture and design.
5+ years of experience in an OnCall rotation.
Expertise in at least two modern programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C, C++) and object-oriented design.

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