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Senior Staff Engineer

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This is a role for engineers who:

  • Think in failure domains and impacted systems
  • Design systems that behave predictably under stress
  • Influence outcomes across organizations they do not manage
  • See reliability as a design outcome, not an operational afterthought

Enterprise Technical Leadership

  • Own the long‑term technical direction for our tools as GEICO’s orchestration platform for failover, rebuild, and restore workflows.
  • Define and evolve orchestration patterns that scale across diverse application architectures and maturity levels.
  • Make architectural tradeoffs balancing reliability, operability, and adoption cost.
  • Serve as the top‑level technical escalation point for complex orchestration and recovery failures.

Fault Tolerance & Resilience Strategy

  • Establish clear standards for modeling failure, retries, timeouts, and compensations.
  • Drive consistency in how teams design and execute recovery workflows.
  • Identify systemic reliability risks and lead cross‑org initiatives to mitigate them.
  • Partner with SRE, infrastructure, and platform teams to align our tools with enterprise reliability goals.

Organizational Influence & Enablement

  • Influence teams that do not report to you through clear technical reasoning and trusted leadership.
  • Set expectations and contracts between our tools and provider systems to clarify ownership of failures.
  • Mentor Staff and Senior engineers in distributed systems thinking and fault‑tolerant design.
  • Act as a technical ambassador for our tools with leadership and peer orgs.

Platform Stewardship

  • Help balance feature development, adoption support, and production stability with your teams capacity.
  • Ensure our tools remains reliable, observable, and operable as usage expands.

Required

  • 10+ years of experience building and operating large‑scale distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design.
  • Proven track record of org‑level technical leadership beyond a single team.
  • Strong ability to reason about and design for partial failure.
  • Experience shaping shared platforms or frameworks used by many teams.

Strongly Preferred

  • Experience with durable execution, or workflow orchestration
  • Hands‑on experience designing recovery, failover, or disaster‑recovery workflows.
  • History of working through adoption challenges for platform teams.
  • Ability to translate low‑level technical risks into clear business and reliability outcomes.

The GEICO Pledge:

  • 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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