Senior Staff Engineer

GEICO

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Remote, USA Posted 10 days ago $130,000–$260,000 / year
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TL;DR

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for our Fault Tolerance & Disaster Recovery team to lead the technical evolution of our enterprise-scale orchestration platform, focusing on failover and recovery workflows across hundreds of systems. This role involves defining long-term architectural strategies, making critical trade-offs between reliability and adoption costs, and serving as the top-level escalation point for complex failures. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in building large-scale distributed systems, deep expertise in fault tolerance and resilience design, and a proven track record of influencing technical decisions across multiple teams. Proficiency in durable execution and workflow orchestration is preferred, along with hands-on experience in designing recovery workflows and navigating adoption challenges for platform teams.

Skills

Kubernetes Docker CI/CD AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform PostgreSQL Python Go Ruby Java CICD Prometheus Grafana Terraform Ansible GitOps

What you'll do

  • Own the long-term technical direction for fault-tolerant orchestration tools.
  • Define and evolve scalable orchestration patterns across diverse systems.
  • Balance reliability, operability, and adoption cost in architectural decisions.
  • Serve as top-level escalation point for complex recovery failures.
  • Lead cross-organizational initiatives to mitigate systemic reliability risks.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design.
  • Proven track record of organizational technical leadership beyond a single team.
  • Strong ability to reason about and design for partial system failures.
  • Experience shaping shared platforms or frameworks used by multiple teams.

Market check

Salary context

This $130,000–$260,000 range sits above 53% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$143,000–$244,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$160,500–$214,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 128 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $110,000–$230,000 across 128 roles with salary data.

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