Senior Manager, Staff SW Engineering – Platform Engineering

GEICO

Senior Staff Engineering Manager at GEICO overseeing team strategy and leading platform delivery for secure file transfer and PaaS services with innovative engineering.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeBethesda • Maryland, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaJenkins.NETPythonTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
Lead the File Exchange Platform team responsible for GEICO's tier-1 secure file transfer service (~3M monthly transfers).
Drive modernization from ticket-based operations to a self-service portal, and CMDB-driven self-certification, deliver high availability and geo-distributed resiliency across data centers, and meet NYDFS/PCI compliance and vulnerability SLAs while reducing onboarding cycle time and support burden.
Lead the UPE team that defines the paved road for PaaS service providers — Platform SDKs (Python, Go, TypeScript, Java), Platform Client UI/UX, IaC as a Service.
Standardize onboarding, provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management across public and private cloud; drive onboarding user experience; and deliver blueprint-IaC solutions for consistent, defect-free service integration.
Drive shared engineering outcomes with UCP partners — advancing UCP to a production-ready tier-1 platform with audit trails, observability-as-code, governance and FinOps integration.
Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
Report on your team's progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years coding experience
5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms
5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising 10+ personnel in a technical environment
2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
Strong knowledge and skills in distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
Proficient in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Python, C#, .NET, Go, or TypeScript.
Experience driving enterprise-wide adoption of platform engineering practices including IaC (Terraform), developer portals, SDK-based onboarding, and unified control-plane architectures.
Proven experience with secure file transfer technologies (SFTP, HTTPS), key management (PGP), compliance automation (NYDFS, PCI), and CMDB-driven certification workflows.
Basic understanding and managing CI/CD toolchain products like Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube and IaC tools like Terraform.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities
Certification assistance
Inclusive and collaborative culture

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Hard Skills & Tools

programming languagesPythonGoTypeScriptJavaC#.NETautomated testingUnit testingIntegration testingEnd-to-End testing

Soft Skills

leadershipproject managementrisk managementteam buildingcommunicationrelationship managementmotivationbudget managementproblem solvingcollaboration

Certifications

NYDFS compliancePCI compliance