Senior Engineer

Key Skills

Apache Cassandra, Autolayout, AWS, Azure, Big Data Technology, C Programming, C++, CircleCI, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data Architecture, Data pipelines, Database, Design, Employee life cycle, ETL frameworks, Git, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IaaS, Java Programming, JavaScript, Jenkins, Lambda, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, PaaS, Perl Programming, PHP Programming, PostgreSQL, Python Programming, RDBMS, Ruby on Rails

Job Description

Our Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Principal 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 lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source Database platform domain.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will:

• 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 & performance of the solutions
• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Take on-call and operational support

Qualifications

• Fluent at least two OOP languages such as Java, Go, python, C++, etc
• Good knowledge for two of the following languages: C, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Java script, shell script, SQL, etc
• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc, familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and infrastructure as code
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment
• 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 on open-source database platforms with emphasis on building enterprise scale RDMS and NoSQL platforms
• Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster
• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus

Experience

• 4+ years of professional PaaS and IaaS experience
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

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

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures

Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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.