Senior Staff Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the long-term technical strategy for our tools, serving as GEICO’s orchestration platform for failover, rebuild, and restore workflows.

• Define and enhance orchestration patterns that can scale across various application architectures and levels of maturity.

• Make architectural trade-offs that balance reliability, operability, and the costs associated with adoption.

• Act as the primary technical escalation point for intricate orchestration and recovery failures.

• Set clear standards for modeling failures, retries, timeouts, and compensations.

• Promote consistency in how teams design and implement recovery workflows.

• Identify systemic reliability threats and lead cross-organizational initiatives to address them.

• Collaborate with SRE, infrastructure, and platform teams to ensure alignment of our tools with enterprise reliability objectives.

• Influence teams that are not under your direct supervision through effective technical reasoning and trusted leadership.

• Establish expectations and agreements between our tools and provider systems to clarify responsibility for failures.

• Mentor Staff and Senior engineers in concepts of distributed systems and fault-tolerant design.

• Serve as a technical ambassador for our tools with leadership and peer organizations.

• Help balance feature development, support for adoption, and production stability in line with your team's capacity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in constructing and operating large-scale distributed systems.

• In-depth expertise in fault tolerance, resilience, and recovery design.

• Proven experience in providing technical leadership at the organizational level beyond a single team.

• Strong capability to analyze and design for partial failures.

• Experience in shaping shared platforms or frameworks utilized by multiple teams.

• Preferred experience with durable execution or workflow orchestration.

• Practical experience in designing recovery, failover, or disaster-recovery workflows.

• A history of addressing adoption challenges faced by platform teams.

• Ability to translate low-level technical risks into clear business and reliability outcomes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that provides personalized coverage tailored to your and your family’s overall well-being.

• Financial benefits including competitive market compensation; a 401K savings plan with immediate vesting that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.

• Access to additional benefits such as mental healthcare and fertility and adoption assistance.

• Supports flexibility - We offer workplace flexibility alongside our GEICO Flex program, which allows the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks each year.