Why Join GEICO?
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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.
Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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.
GEICO is seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership across multiple projects and teams supporting Service and Policy systems. This role will help influence the strategic direction of engineering initiatives that maintain the highest standards of compliance, protection, availability, and customer value. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we continue evolving into a technology organization grounded in engineering excellence, customer obsession, psychological safety, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
Position Description
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:
- Provide technical leadership across multiple projects and teams, helping set direction for architecture, design, delivery, and operational excellence.
- Influence the strategic direction of engineering initiatives by aligning technical decisions with business priorities, regulatory needs, customer outcomes, and long-term platform health.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Compliance, Operations, and other partner organizations.
- Lead efforts to improve engineering processes and practices, including technical design reviews, architecture standards, software development practices, testing strategies, production readiness, and incident learning.
- Drive customer-centric innovation and product improvements by using customer insights, operational data, and stakeholder feedback to inform technical strategy and priorities.
- Lead the design and architecture of resilient, scalable, secure, and compliant systems across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
- Guide teams through the resolution of complex technical challenges, performance bottlenecks, and production issues while strengthening observability, reliability, and supportability.
- Provide thought leadership on emerging technologies, modernization opportunities, engineering practices, and platform strategies that improve business agility and customer experience.
- Collaborate across teams to integrate performance, security, compliance, and reliability best practices into the development and deployment lifecycle.
- Embody GEICO's mission and values in all interactions while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and psychologically safe work environment.
- Serve as a role model and mentor for engineers and technical leaders, helping strengthen technical expertise, decision quality, and engineering culture across the organization.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with demonstrated leadership across complex, large-scale systems and multiple teams.
- Proven ability to influence technical strategy, architecture, and delivery outcomes across organizational boundaries.
- Strong experience designing resilient, scalable, secure, and compliant systems using modern application architectures, microservices, APIs, event-driven patterns, and cloud or hybrid infrastructure.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience with frameworks such as React or Angular.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation or configuration management tools.
- Solid experience with database design, SQL and NoSQL platforms, performance optimization, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational supportability.
- Strong understanding of networking, caches, key/value stores, load balancing, global load balancing, queues, DNS, CDN, cloud security practices, and compliance standards.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong stakeholder relationships and translate customer, business, regulatory, and operational needs into technical priorities.
- Experience improving engineering practices, SDLC execution, architecture governance, testing quality, production readiness, reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and mentoring skills, with a passion for developing others and strengthening engineering culture.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with sound judgment, attention to detail, and a commitment to operational excellence.
- Visionary thinker with the ability to anticipate future challenges, identify strategic opportunities, and guide teams toward durable technical solutions.
- Demonstrated commitment to collaboration, inclusion, psychological safety, and company values.
- Proven track record of successfully leading and building software in large and complex organizations.
Experience
- 10+ years of professional experience in software development or software engineering
- 8+ years of experience with architecture, design, and technical leadership for large-scale systems
- 5+ years of experience leading technical direction across projects, teams, or organizational boundaries
- 4+ years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- Demonstrated experience influencing engineering strategy, improving engineering practices, and mentoring senior technical talent
Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
$110,000.00 - $350,000.00
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.
At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
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.
