Senior Staff Engineer

GEICO

Senior Staff Software Engineer providing technical leadership for fault-tolerant orchestration at GEICO. Driving consistency in recovery workflows and mentoring engineers across organizations.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 team's capacity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

distributed systemsfault toleranceresilience designrecovery designworkflow orchestrationfailover workflowsdisaster recovery workflowssystem reliabilitytechnical leadershipadoption challenges

Soft Skills

technical reasoningtrusted leadershipmentoringinfluencing without authorityclear communicationcross-organizational collaborationexpectation managementcapacity balancingproblem-solvingsystemic risk identification