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Senior Software Engineer –(GoLang/Kubernetes/Object Storage) *HYBRID*

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In-Office
Seattle, WA
80K-215K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Seattle, WA
80K-215K Annually
Senior level
The Senior Engineer will focus on building high performance platforms using Go, Kubernetes, and Object Storage, while enhancing existing systems and driving technical strategy.
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At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

External Job Posting Description

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation and platform engineering domain modernization as we redefine experiences for our customers. You will be instrumental in driving the adoption and expansion of our Object Storage, ensuring its stability, security, and performance across our hybrid cloud environment for DataLakes/AI/ML Workloads.

Position Description 

The Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in Go development, Kubernetes, Object Storage Services (AWS S3 or Azure Storage), Open-Source Object Storage (CEPH, MinIO)
 
Position Responsibilities 
As a Senior Engineer, you will: 

  • Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems 

  • Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain 

  • Own accountability for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions 

  • Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and storage and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes 

  • Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

  • Take on-call and operational support 

Qualifications 

  • Fluent in at least two programming languages such as Go (preferred) or C++, C#, Java, etc.

  • Understanding of open-source object storage such as CEPH, MinIO

  • Experience in using object storage services like AWS S3 or Azure Storage

  • Experience on open-source database platforms with emphasis on building enterprise scale RDMS and NoSQL platforms 

  • Knowledge in big data and streaming data & storage pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster 

  • Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be a big plus

  • Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)

  • Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production 

  • Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and infrastructure as code 

  • In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 

  • Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches 

  • Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment 

  • Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment 

  

Experience: 

  • 5+ years of software design and development experience

  • 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

  • Professional PaaS and IaaS experience (optional)

  • Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service (optional)

  

Education 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience 

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Annual Salary

$80,000.00 - $215,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.


 

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.


 

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
  • Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
  • Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
  • Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

Top Skills

Ansible
Aws S3
Azure Storage
Ceph
CircleCI
Docker
Git
Go
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Minio
Terraform

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