Senior Staff Engineer, Hybrid Cloud Fabric

GEICO

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Work type
Remote
Location
Palo Alto, CA · Dallas, TX · Bethesda, MD · Seattle, WA
Salary
$120,000–$260,000 / yr
Posted
18 days ago

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Similar $182k
This role $190k
$103k most similar roles pay here $277k

This role pays more than 54% of similar roles. Most pay $142,400–$222,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $190k versus about $182k 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 71 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $110,000–$230,000 across 71 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Engineer, Hybrid Cloud Fabric

Join GEICO's tech transformation as a Senior or Staff Engineer specializing in service mesh technologies to build a robust communication fabric across hybrid cloud environments. You will design and implement advanced traffic management, security policies, and observability features for microservices, ensuring seamless integration with legacy systems and Kubernetes orchestration platforms. Key responsibilities include establishing best practices, developing monitoring dashboards, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with networking and SRE teams to maintain high availability and performance. Essential skills encompass deep knowledge of Istio, Go programming, Linux OS, advanced networking concepts, observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana, and security principles. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to open-source projects and shape GEICO's cloud-native infrastructure at scale.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement a robust service mesh architecture for microservices across hybrid cloud environments.
  • Integrate the service mesh with existing infrastructure to ensure seamless operation and interoperability.
  • Establish and enforce security policies and traffic routing rules for a reliable application environment.
  • Develop monitoring dashboards using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and Kiali for deep insights.
  • Guide engineers on service mesh principles and best practices to foster expertise within the team.
  • Work with networking and security teams to ensure secure integration of the service mesh with on-premises infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering or DevOps.
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience with Istio and service mesh technologies.
  • Deep expertise in designing and implementing microservices architectures.
  • Extensive knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.
  • Strong programming skills, especially in Go; Rust is a plus.
  • Experience in Linux OS performance tuning, troubleshooting, and security.
  • Expertise in observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Kiali.

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