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Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering

Geico

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United States , Chevy Chase, MD ▼

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IT - Software Development

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130000.00 - 260000.00 USD / Year
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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

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Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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