Staff Engineer - Infrastructure Engineering (Linux), OS Team (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, secure, 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.

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will help in the delivery of high-quality products, unlocking new engineering capabilities. Additionally, you will enhance and maintain the Windows operating system images for on-prem and public clouds.

Position Responsibilities

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain
• Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability, and sponsor continuous learning
• Be the point person for developing, enhancing, and maintaining Windows operating system images for on-prem and public clouds.

Qualifications

• Deep Linux knowledge
• Experience with the Linux kernel is desirable
• Fluent in one or more of the following languages: Rust, Golang, and/or C
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and related container orchestration platforms
• Experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, etc.) is preferred
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like Git/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Experience

• 6+ years of professional PaaS and IaaS experience
• 6+ years of experience working with Linux
• 4+ years of experience with architecture and design

Education

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

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