Senior Staff Engineer

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.

Responsibilities

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; 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; 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; Help balance feature development, adoption support, and production stability with your teams capacity; Ensure our tools remains reliable, observable, and operable as usage expands

Requirements

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

Nice to have

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

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards program; Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; 401K savings plan vested from day one with 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; tuition assistance; Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance; Workplace flexibility; GEICO Flex program offering ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year