Senior Staff Engineer, Hybrid Cloud Fabric

GEICO

Senior Staff Engineer implementing scalable and secure service mesh technologies at GEICO. Collaborating with teams to enhance observability and ensure application performance across hybrid cloud environments.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timePalo Alto • California, Maryland, Texas, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

KubernetesMicroservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement a robust service mesh architecture, encompassing traffic management, security, observability, and resilience for microservices across public and private clouds within our on-premises data centers.
Integrate the service mesh with existing infrastructure and applications, ensuring seamless operation and interoperability with various platforms and technologies, including legacy systems.
Establish and enforce service mesh best practices, including security policies, traffic routing rules, circuit breakers, and access control mechanisms, to maintain a secure and reliable application environment.
Develop comprehensive monitoring and observability dashboards to provide deep insights into service mesh health, performance, and potential issues, enabling proactive problem identification and resolution.
Guide and mentor engineers on service mesh principles and best practices, fostering knowledge sharing and expertise development within the team, empowering them to contribute effectively to the service mesh implementation.
Work closely with networking and security teams to ensure secure and efficient integration of the service mesh with on-premises infrastructure and networks, addressing potential challenges and ensuring smooth operation.
Partner with SREs to establish service mesh observability, monitoring, and alerting strategies for maintaining high availability and performance, collaborating to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
Actively engage with the Istio community, contribute to open-source projects, and represent GEICO's leadership in service mesh adoption.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
6+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing microservices architectures.
4+ years of hands-on experience with Istio and service mesh technologies.
Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.
Proven ability to lead technical projects and mentor other engineers.

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

service mesh architecturetraffic managementsecurity policiestraffic routing rulescircuit breakersaccess control mechanismsmonitoring and observabilityKubernetesmicroservices architectureIstio

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringknowledge sharingcollaborationproblem identificationproactive resolution