Senior Software Engineer – Qualification & Delivery

GEICO

Senior Software Engineer developing next-generation Release Platform and DevOps Tooling at GEICO. Mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with various teams to improve software delivery processes.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeBethesda • California, Maryland, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $105,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDNSGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetes.NETPythonReactTCP/IPTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

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

PythonGolang.NETTypeScriptReactKubernetesAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsJenkinsOpen Policy Agent

Soft Skills

mentoringcode reviewscollaborationengineering excellencetroubleshootingdebugging