CrawlJobs Logo
Geico Logo Geico · IT - Software Development

Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering

United States, Chevy Chase, MD 130000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 21, 2026
Apply Position
Job Link Share

Job Description

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Staff Engineer to join our engineering organization and drive technical excellence across our platform. This is a pivotal role for a seasoned engineer who combines deep hands-on expertise with the ability to influence technical direction at the organizational level. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will be architecting scalable infrastructure, mentoring engineering teams, and applying cutting-edge AI solutions to solve complex, business-critical problems. You will work at the intersection of infrastructure, data systems, and applied artificial intelligence, ensuring our technology stack is robust, efficient, and positioned for future growth.

Job Responsibility

  • Define and drive the technical vision for infrastructure and AI-powered systems across the organization
  • Design, architect, and implement highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
  • Lead technical decision-making on critical projects, balancing short-term needs with long-term sustainability
  • Establish and champion engineering best practices, design patterns, and coding standards
  • Architect and optimize compute infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
  • Design and implement database solutions (relational and NoSQL) that scale to meet business demands
  • Drive cloud infrastructure strategy, including containerization, orchestration, and serverless architectures
  • Ensure system reliability, observability, and operational excellence across all platform components
  • Identify and prioritize opportunities to apply AI/ML to solve high-impact business problems
  • Stay current with emerging AI technologies and evaluate their applicability to business challenges
  • Mentor and grow senior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
  • Conduct design reviews and provide constructive feedback on technical proposals
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and business stakeholders
  • Lead complex, ambiguous projects from conception through delivery
  • Drive pragmatic trade-offs between technical debt, velocity, and quality
  • Contribute hands-on to critical codebases when needed
  • Champion operational excellence and incident management best practices

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in infrastructure systems, including compute platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, cloud services), networking, and storage
  • Strong database experience across relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB)
  • Demonstrated experience applying AI to solve real-world problems in production environments
  • Expert-level proficiency in at least two programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, Rust)
  • Experience designing and building distributed systems at scale
  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms (Azure OR AWS) and infrastructure-as-code practices
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and deployment automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD)
  • Background in building real-time data processing systems (Kafka, Flink, Spark)
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
  • Experience working in a platform engineering team, building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services
  • 10+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of increasing technical scope and impact
  • 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
  • 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
  • Hands-on work experience coaching and mentor personnel in a technical environment
  • 5+ years of experience with one of the public clouds - AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
  • 5+ years of experience working in a platform engineering team, building internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

What we offer

  • 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
Geico - All Job Offers

Looking for more opportunities?

Search for other job offers that match your skills and interests.

Suggested Tags: Frontend Developer Secretary Talent Manager Salesforce Administrator Data Analyst
Similar Jobs for

Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering

8 matching positions

Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering

Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and...
Location
Location
United States , Chevy Chase; Austin; Richardson; Seattle; Palo Alto
Salary
Salary:
110000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year
geico.com Logo
Geico
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
  • Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
  • Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals
  • Experience with continuous delivery 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
  • Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
  • Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Go, Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design
  • Experience with Microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
  • Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
  • Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
  • Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
  • Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
  • 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
  • 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
What we offer
What we offer
  • 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
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior-Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity

We are actively looking for a talented software engineer to join the Infrastruct...
Location
Location
United States , San Mateo
Salary
Salary:
130000.00 - 280000.00 USD / Year
verkada.com Logo
Verkada
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar position
  • Strong experience with C/C++ build systems (Make, CMake, Meson, or similar)
  • Deep understanding of C/C++ compilation, linking, and dependency management
  • Experience with build system migration and modernization
  • Proven experience with Bazel in large-scale monorepo environments
  • Proficiency in authoring and maintaining custom Bazel rules
  • Experience designing and implementing Bazel toolchains for C/C++ builds
  • Knowledge of Bazel remote execution and caching strategies
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Make every engineer’s day-to-day productive and enjoyable!
  • Define engineering tooling roadmap
  • Own Kubernetes deployment and development tooling
  • Build various software and hardware testing frameworks
  • Provide technical support for engineers on other teams
  • Help with growing the team
What we offer
What we offer
  • Healthcare programs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
  • Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
  • Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
  • Expanded mental health support
  • Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
  • Paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
  • Professional development stipend
  • Fertility stipend
  • Wellness/fitness benefits
  • Healthy lunches provided daily
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Impala Performance Engineer)

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionab...
Location
Location
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
cloudera.com Logo
Cloudera
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 8+ years of industry experience in performance related work ideally on large scale distributed systems
  • Understanding of DBMS algorithms and data structure fundamentals
  • Understanding of hardware trends and full stack systems performance: CPU, RAM, storage, network, Linux kernel, JVM, distributed systems performance
  • Deep understanding of performance measurement methodologies and performance analysis tools and techniques
  • Strong design and coding skills (Java/C++/Golang/Python preferred)
  • Ability to work in a distributed setting with team members spread across multiple geographies
  • Demonstrated ability to work on large cross-functional projects, including strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
  • Hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Work with internal development teams and the open source community to proactively drive performance improvements/optimizations across our data warehouse stack
  • Work with product managers, developers and the field team to understand performance and scale requirements and customer workload characteristics, and develop benchmarks and related performance analysis tooling based on these requirements
  • Analyze performance and scalability characteristics to identify bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems
  • Perform root cause analysis of performance issues identified by internal testing and from customers and suggest corrective actions
  • Evaluate performance of competitor systems
What we offer
What we offer
  • Generous PTO Policy
  • Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
  • Flexible WFH Policy
  • Mental & Physical Wellness programs
  • Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
  • Access to Continued Career Development
  • Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
  • Paid Volunteer Time
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Impala Performance Engineer)

At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionab...
Location
Location
Hungary , Budapest; Szeged; Remote
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
cloudera.com Logo
Cloudera
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 8+ years of industry experience in performance related work ideally on large scale distributed systems
  • Understanding of DBMS algorithms and data structure fundamentals
  • Understanding of hardware trends and full stack systems performance: CPU, RAM, storage, network, Linux kernel, JVM, distributed systems performance
  • Deep understanding of performance measurement methodologies and performance analysis tools and techniques
  • Strong design and coding skills (Java/C++/Golang/Python preferred)
  • Ability to work in a distributed setting with team members spread across multiple geographies
  • Demonstrated ability to work on large cross-functional projects, including strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
  • Hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Work with internal development teams and the open source community to proactively drive performance improvements/optimizations across our data warehouse stack
  • Work with product managers, developers and the field team to understand performance and scale requirements and customer workload characteristics, and develop benchmarks and related performance analysis tooling based on these requirements
  • Analyze performance and scalability characteristics to identify bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems
  • Perform root cause analysis of performance issues identified by internal testing and from customers and suggest corrective actions
  • Evaluate performance of competitor systems
What we offer
What we offer
  • Generous PTO Policy
  • Support work life balance with Unplugged Days
  • Flexible WFH Policy
  • Mental & Physical Wellness programs
  • Phone and Internet Reimbursement program
  • Access to Continued Career Development
  • Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages
  • Paid Volunteer Time
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Membership

Uber One is Uber's flagship membership program and one of the company's most cri...
Location
Location
United States , San Francisco, California; Sunnyvale, California
Salary
Salary:
267000.00 - 297000.00 USD / Year
uber.com Logo
Uber
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
  • 10+ years of professional software development experience, building and operating systems in production environments
  • Strong expertise in backend development, distributed systems, and system design for large-scale, low-latency applications
  • Demonstrated ability leading complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies and design complexity
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and business stakeholders
  • Proven ability to mentor and elevate other engineers, including Senior and Staff-level ICs
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Set technical direction across various engineering pillars encompassing membership growth, retention, benefits delivery, experimentation, and platform infrastructure — ensuring architectural coherence and high engineering standards across a 70+ engineer organization
  • Design and evolve large-scale distributed systems that power membership lifecycle management, benefits eligibility and fulfillment, savings computation, and real-time personalization across Uber's Rides, Delivery, and Grocery surfaces
  • Lead complex, multi-team technical initiatives with significant cross-organizational dependencies — coordinating with Eats, Rides, Grocery, Payments, Pricing, Fares, Fulfillment Engineering teams to deliver integrated membership experiences
  • Drive data-informed product engineering by building instrumentation, establishing OKRs, and leveraging experimentation (A/B testing, holdout analysis) to optimize membership coverage, conversion, engagement, and savings delivery
  • Architect for scale and reliability — designing systems that handle millions of real-time membership eligibility checks, benefits applications, and personalized offer computations with low latency and high availability
  • Mentor and elevate engineers across the organization, including Senior and Staff-level ICs, raising the technical bar and fostering a culture of engineering excellence, code quality, and operational rigor
  • Shape technical strategy in partnership with Product Management, Data Science, and business leadership — translating membership growth and engagement objectives into engineering roadmaps and architectural decisions
  • Deliver and review technical designs, code, and documentation to a high standard, championing best practices in service architecture, data management, and deployment
What we offer
What we offer
  • Eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program
  • May be offered an equity award & other types of comp
  • Eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan
  • Various benefits
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Staff Software Engineer (Secrets Hub)

CyberArk is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Secrets Hub group...
Location
Location
Israel , Petah Tikva
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
paloaltonetworks.com Logo
Palo Alto Networks
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or elite military tech unit alumni)
  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience, with strong coding skills in Python (or similar modern language)
  • Proven experience building and shipping production-grade SaaS or cloud-native services
  • Familiarity with AWS cloud services, especially Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and related serverless components
  • Strong system design and problem-solving skills
  • Team player with excellent communication skills and a proactive mindset
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Design, implement, and maintain secure and scalable backend services for Secrets Hub
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and fellow engineers across multiple engineering teams
  • Write clean, maintainable code in Python using AWS serverless architecture and AWS CDK
  • Participate in system design discussions, architecture reviews, and code reviews
  • Take part in the full development lifecycle, including planning, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring
  • Investigate complex production issues and contribute to continuous improvement of reliability and observability
  • Uphold high standards of quality, security, and performance
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior / Staff Software Engineering - Payments & Entitlements

Join a team that builds and evolves the technical foundation for our premium sub...
Location
Location
Germany , Berlin
Salary
Salary:
Not provided
axelspringer.com Logo
Axel Springer SE
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures
  • strong hands-on production experience with Node.js and TypeScript, ideally in high-traffic, business-critical environments
  • deep experience with AWS, serverless architectures, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and incident resolution
  • solid understanding of modern web challenges such as caching, cookies, session handling, performance, resilience, and peak load scenarios
  • experience operating and evolving subscription, payment, checkout, entitlement, acquisition, retention, or partner integration products
  • strong analytical mindset with the ability to question existing solutions, identify inefficiencies, and turn improvements into measurable impact
  • pragmatic, hands-on approach with strong English communication skills, confident AI tool usage, and interest in Rust where it adds value
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • own and evolve the technical foundation of our Premium Services domain across acquisition, retention, offering, checkout, payment, entitlement, and partner integrations
  • design, build, and operate scalable backend services using Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, serverless architectures, and high-availability web systems
  • challenge existing systems and drive well-founded improvements that reduce complexity, optimize costs, increase reliability, or unlock new revenue opportunities
  • identify and improve technical and business processes across payment flows, entitlement logic, checkout experiences, partner integrations, and operations
  • work closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to turn premium, payment, and entitlement requirements into pragmatic technical solutions
  • design and improve APIs, service architectures, event-driven communication patterns, and integration flows across our multi-brand premium ecosystem
  • build and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and strong production ownership, including hands-on troubleshooting and mentoring
What we offer
What we offer
  • trainings and learning lunches
  • tech conferences
  • budget for workshops
  • discounted public transport ticket or JobRad leasing
  • bicycle garage (incl. regular bicycle service)
  • childcare facilities or two modern in-house kindergartens
  • 30 days vacation plus 10 days work from abroad
  • free breakfast snack
  • free lunch in our canteens
  • guidance on the administrative side of relocation and visa processes through our relocation agency
Read More
Arrow Right

Senior Staff Software Engineer

In this role, you will lead sustaining and performance improvements across Terad...
Location
Location
United States , San Diego
Salary
Salary:
156400.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year
teradata.com Logo
Teradata
Expiration Date
Until further notice
Flip Icon
Requirements
Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, database engine, performance engineering, or large-scale data platforms
  • Strong expertise in diagnosing complex, cross-layer issues involving memory, OS, networking, infrastructure, concurrency, and execution behavior in production environments
  • Deep understanding of system internals (e.g., SQLE, PDE, or equivalent execution/runtime environments)
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical investigations and influence engineering decisions across teams
  • Strong problem-solving and communication skills in cross-functional engineering environments
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
Job Responsibility
Job Responsibility
  • Lead sustaining and performance improvements across Teradata’s memory and execution systems, ensuring correctness, reliability, and customer trust under complex, large-scale workloads
  • Focus on diagnosing and resolving memory-driven system behaviors that manifest in customer-impacting scenarios, particularly under AI-driven and high-concurrency workloads
  • Drive long-term improvements by identifying systemic gaps in memory behavior and influencing design, validation, and operational practices across the platform
  • Own end-to-end resolution and prevention of classes of customer-impacting issues related to memory pressure, allocation, and execution-path behavior
  • Lead cross-team technical investigations involving SQLE, PDE, OS, networking, infrastructure, and performance teams to resolve complex, system-wide issues
  • Influence engineering decisions through deep technical insights derived from real-world system behavior under memory pressure
  • Diagnose and resolve complex system behaviors driven by memory pressure, resource contention, and cross-layer execution dynamics
  • Identify and resolve cases that appear as SQL Engine issues but originate in memory or execution-layer interactions
  • Provide PDE-adjacent L4 triage and escalation support, particularly for high-severity incidents
  • Drive root cause analysis and translate field learnings into systemic engineering improvements
What we offer
What we offer
  • healthcare
  • life and disability insurance plans
  • 401(k)-retirement savings plan
  • time-off programs
  • Fulltime
Read More
Arrow Right