Senior Staff Engineer – Performance and Observability

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4 Locations
In-Office
110K-260K Annually
Senior level
Insurance
The Role
The Senior Staff Engineer will enhance cloud performance and observability, optimize CI/CD pipelines, lead automation, mentor engineers, and support containerization initiatives.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

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 an experienced Senior Staff Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. 

Position Description 
Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, and maintain OpenStack-based environments. You will help lead the automation of cloud operations, support containerization initiatives, and help optimize our CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate has expertise in monitoring and observability stacks, Python or similar languages, infrastructure deployment automation, and containerization technologies. Experience with OpenStack is preferred, but additional experience in other required areas may offset. 

 

Position Responsibilities 
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will: 

  • Improve on monitoring, observability and performance of deployed systems 

  • Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments 

  • Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub Workflows 

  • Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery 

  • Support containerization initiatives (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) 

  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues in cloud and automation workflows 

  • Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams 

  • Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

  • Participate in on-call and operational support as needed 

  • Mentor junior engineers 

Qualifications 

  • Strong experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in cloud environments 

  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting in cloud environments 

  • Deep familiarity with tools like Grafana and Promethius 

  • Experience with performance tuning 

  • Proficiency in Python programming and scripting 

  • Experience with OpenStack administration and operations preferred 

  • Strong experience with Ansible f or automation and configuration management 

  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) 

  • Proficiency in Python programming or scripting 

  • Good understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud deployments 

  • Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) 

  • Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation 

  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills 

  • Strong communication and collaboration abilities 

Experience 

  • 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation 

  • 8+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms 

  • 8+ years of experience with Python and Ansible 

  • 8+ years of experience with CI/CD systems and containerization technologies 

  • Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises) is a plus 

  • Experience with low level virtualization technologies (QEMU/libvirt) is a plus 

Education 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience 

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Annual Salary

$110,000.00 - $260,000.00

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: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

  • 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.

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.

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration or infrastructure automation
  • 8+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms
  • 8+ years of experience with Python and Ansible
  • 8+ years of experience with CI/CD systems and containerization technologies
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

GEICO Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GEICO and has not been reviewed or approved by GEICO.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, prescription, behavioral health, dental (including orthodontia), and vision options with multiple plan types. Wellness resources, HSAs/FSAs, and related programs add breadth to the core health offering.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support includes a 401(k) with an employer match, and the match level is still characterized as good even after adjustments. Access to a credit union and financial education tools further strengthens the overall retirement/financial support picture.
  • Flexible Benefits Work-life programs provide flexibility through hybrid scheduling and limited remote-work options, alongside a broad menu of ancillary benefits such as commuter pre-tax programs, employee discounts, and charitable gift matching. Education support via tuition assistance and scholarships adds additional optionality for different needs.

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The Company
HQ: Chevy Chase, MD
26,259 Employees
Year Founded: 1936

What We Do

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