Sr. Staff Engineer - Object Storage PaaS - Hybrid - Cloud (REMOTE)

$110,000 - $261,500/Yr

Geico - Chevy Chase, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Chevy Chase, MD

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

GEICO is seeking an experienced 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. As a Staff Engineer, you will work closely with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Staff Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems, and 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 the Open-Source Object Storage platform domain. This team's mission is strengthening GEICO's storage platform ecosystem by implementing open source, cloud native and cloud agnostic Object Storage for Datalakes/AI/ML workloads. We are looking for building a robust, automated, and scalable storage infrastructure to provide reliable and efficient storage services, empowering GEICO to deliver exceptional customer experiences and cheaper insurance using cutting edge technology stack.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• Fluent in at least two OOP languages such as Go (preferred) or C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Good knowledge of two of the following languages: C, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Java script, shell script, SQL, etc.
• Understand open-source object storage & databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with CEPH, MinIO, No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch.
• 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.
• 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 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 big plus.

Nice-to-haves

• 54+ years of professional PaaS and IaaS experience (preferred).

Benefits

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures