Distinguished Engineer

• Develop and drive the overall tech strategy for the Reliability and observability tools organization, and report to the Senior Director
• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership as Observability Domain Technical Champion
• 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 Observability Engineering domain
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable systems, considering both on-premises and cloud-based solutions
• Develop and maintain comprehensive incident response plans to address various disaster scenarios on our backup/restore systems
• Conduct regular simulations and drills to ensure the readiness of the organization in the event of a disaster
• Hands-on software engineering and SDLC best practices (Technical Review Documents, Architecture, Software Development, Software Reviews, Testing, Production Readiness Reviews, among others)
• Evaluate, select, and implement cutting-edge technologies and tools to enhance our data safeguard capabilities including but not limited to processes, compliance, and visibility
• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our data safeguard capabilities
• Work closely with executive leadership, IT teams, and other stakeholders to communicate the importance of data safeguarding and foster a culture of resilience
• Act as a trusted advisor, providing guidance on backups/restores and security of data, matters to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Possess Finops discipline, Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• 8+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
• Deep hands-on experience in building complex distributed system to process large scale telemetry and architectures to support the scale and performance, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• Advance knowledge of at least two of the OOP language such as Java, Go, Python, etc.
• Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Clickhouse, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc. Knowledge or Big data formats such as Parquet or Avro etc.
• Experience in architecting, designing, building Observability platform solutions, Advanced data analytics using Open-Source technologies are a big plus.
• Experience building distributed systems
• Excellent communication skills
• 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
• Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log
• 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)
• Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster
• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus
• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus

• 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