Senior Staff Engineer at Geico in Seattle, WA

Senior Staff Engineer Location: Seattle, WA 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. Location: Remote – US Level: Senior Staff Engineer Team: Fault Tolerance & Disaster Recovery The Role: We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for fault‑tolerant orchestration at enterprise scale. This role operates at the intersection of architecture, reliability engineering, and organizational influence. You will be responsible not only for the technical evolution of our tool, but for shaping how GEICO designs, reasons about, and executes recovery workflows across hundreds of systems. 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 Scope & Impact At the Senior Staff level, success is measured by durable impact across the org, not individual delivery. You will define patterns, guide long‑term strategy, and ensure our tools scale technically and socially. What You’ll Do 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. What We’re Looking For 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. Annual Salary $130,000.00 - $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.