Senior Staff Engineering Manager, FinOps, Capacity Management & Infrastructure (REMOTE)
- Palo Alto, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
planning domains. This role will have opportunity to enable all application teams to deliver enterprise-wide products that are highly performant, efficient, and reliable. Our workloads are spread between On-prem, Azure, and AWS and you will have exciting opportunities to solve complex problems in multi-cloud model. You can create a massive impact on our customers’ experience and Geico’s new mission towards Technology transformation.Position Description:Our Senior manager is an engineering leader who will lead members of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of reliability and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge experience to improve application’s performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud/infrastructure architecture, and leverage engineering solutions to solve operational problems.Position Responsibilities:As a Senior manager, you will:·Collaborate with the application teams to understand their pain points around performance, efficiency, reliability and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way.·Influence and build vision with application owners to ship quality products in a faster pace.·Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and execution·Develop and motivate teams to solve complex problems and be a strong advocate for open-source technologies and solutions.·Be technically hands-on in coding as well as building highly available systems.·Be responsible for building and mentoring a new team of software engineers·Drive the team towards building solutions towards the long-term goals while ensuring that high priority tech debts are solved in an efficient way.·Be a strong thought leader in Site Reliability engineering, Operational excellence, and Devops Principles.·Drive workload and cost optimization opportunities.·Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.Qualifications:·Hands-on Software engineering manager with strong understanding of Capacity and Infra structure Engineering, FinOps Engineering.·Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus.·Hands-on experience in managing infrastructure components through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible·Strong technical acumen in Cloud Architecture, Performance Benchmarking, Capacity planning and Reliability tools.·Expert in Container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), container runtimes and OS (Operating System) optimization.·Experience in Observability platforms, application monitoring tools and performance analysis techniques.·Experience managing & growing technical leaders and teams.·In-depth knowledge of data structures and algorithms.Required qualifications and experience:
-Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required
-10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including software development lifecycle best practices
-5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
-5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
-2+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing#LI-RP2Annual Salary $150,000.00 - $300,000.00The 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.GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified 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.