Senior Staff Engineer, Performance and Observability

GEICO

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bethesda, MDPalo Alto, CADallas, TX
Salary
$110,000–$260,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
12 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $185k
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This role pays less than 67% of similar roles. Most pay $173,906–$250,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $185k versus about $212k 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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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Staff Engineer, Performance and Observability

As a Senior Staff Engineer – Performance and Observability, you will join a team focused on building high-performance, low maintenance, and zero-downtime platforms to support an insurance business transformation. You will work alongside Distinguished and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, and maintain OpenStack-based environments while leading the automation of cloud operations and supporting containerization initiatives. Your daily responsibilities include improving monitoring, observability, and performance of deployed systems, developing automation scripts and playbooks, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery. You will utilize a technical stack including Python, Ansible, GitHub Workflows, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker, and Kubernetes. The role requires expertise in troubleshooting cloud workflows, infrastructure as code, and networking security to solve complex problems within the organization's transition toward a modern technology-driven infrastructure model.

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What you'll do

  • Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments.
  • Improve monitoring, observability, and performance of deployed systems.
  • Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub Workflows.
  • Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.
  • Support containerization initiatives using technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in cloud and automation workflows.
  • Mentor junior engineers and share best practices across teams.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
  • 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation.
  • 8+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms.
  • 8+ years of experience with Python and Ansible.
  • 8+ years of experience with CI/CD systems and containerization technologies.
  • Proficiency in Python programming and scripting.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus.
  • Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises) (preferred).

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