GEICO

Senior Software Engineer – Qualification & Delivery – Release Platform

GEICO

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chevy ChaseCaliforniaMarylandUnited States

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Salary

💰 $105,000 - $215,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain internal Release Platform services and tooling to enable automated, robust, scalable, and observable software delivery workflows.
  • Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using tools like Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions.
  • Develop policy-as-code governance frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enforce deployment rules, approvals, and compliance gates.
  • Design self-service capabilities for developers, including standardized deployment workflows, configuration automation, and security integration.
  • Collaborate with Cyber and Release Control teams to embed security guardrails, change gates, and auditability into the software delivery process.
  • Implement observability best practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing to improve deployment visibility and reliability.
  • Implement and enforce deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, rolling updates) and fail-safe rollback mechanisms.
  • Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, and advocate for engineering excellence across the team.
  • Collaborate across infrastructure, platform, SRE, and application teams to deliver cohesive developer experiences.
  • Continuously explore and integrate open-source innovations to enhance platform reliability, security, and developer productivity.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience developing internal developer platforms and DevOps tooling for large-scale organizations.
  • Expertise in Python, Golang (Go), .NET and TypeScript, React for building scalable platform services and developer automation tools.
  • Deep experience with Kubernetes, including namespace management, service discovery, network policies, ingress/egress management, and service mesh.
  • Strong proficiency with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD platforms.
  • Practical experience implementing GitOps workflows.
  • Hands-on writing scripts to automate routine tasks using bash, Python scripting.
  • Advanced understanding of deployment strategies (blue/green, feature flag) and building resilient, automated rollout processes.
  • Hands-on experience building Policy as Code frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego.
  • Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, ingress controllers.
  • Experience in multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) with a focus on containerized deployments and cloud-native services.
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills for deployment failures, system performance issues, and network troubleshooting.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401K savings plan vested from day one with a 6% match
  • Performance and recognition-based incentives
  • Tuition assistance
  • Mental healthcare support
  • Fertility and adoption assistance
  • Workplace flexibility
  • GEICO Flex program allowing work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonGolang.NETTypeScriptReactKubernetesAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsJenkinsOpen Policy Agent
Soft Skills
mentoringcode reviewscollaborationtroubleshootingdebugging