Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering (HYBRID)

GEICO

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Remote (Md Bethesda Office, US) Posted 97 days ago $130,000–$260,000 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

Join our engineering team as a Senior Staff Engineer and drive technical excellence by architecting scalable infrastructure and mentoring teams to apply AI solutions for complex business challenges. You will define the technical vision for systems across the organization, design fault-tolerant distributed architectures, and optimize compute infrastructure for efficiency. Key responsibilities include leading cloud strategy with containerization and serverless technologies, ensuring system reliability, and applying AI/ML to solve high-impact problems. Required skills encompass deep expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, AWS or Azure, database management, and proficiency in languages like Python or Java. Ideal candidates have 10+ years of professional software development experience, a strong background in platform engineering, and the ability to mentor senior engineers while fostering technical excellence.

Skills

AWS Azure Kubernetes Docker Python Java Go Rust PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Cassandra Redis DynamoDB CI/CD GitHub Actions Jenkins ArgoCD Kafka Flink Spark Terraform

What you'll do

  • Define and drive the technical vision for AI-powered systems across the organization.
  • Design and implement highly scalable distributed systems with fault tolerance.
  • Lead technical decision-making on critical projects, balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability.
  • Mentor senior engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
  • Identify and prioritize opportunities to apply AI/ML to solve high-impact business problems.
  • Ensure system reliability, observability, and operational excellence across all platform components.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of professional software development experience with increasing technical scope and impact.
  • Deep expertise in infrastructure systems including Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services, networking, and storage.
  • Strong database experience across relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Cassandra).
  • Demonstrated experience applying AI to solve real-world problems in production environments.
  • Expert-level proficiency in at least two programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or Rust.
  • Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale with hands-on work in CI/CD pipelines.

Market check

Salary context

This $130,000–$260,000 range sits above 65% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$124,112–$234,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$156,000–$214,500

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 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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