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Senior Staff Engineering Manager, FinOps, Capacity Management & Infrastructure (REMOTE)

Apply remote type: Remote | Locations: Palo Alto, CA OR Portland - JPS, NC Raleigh-Durham, PA Pittsburgh - JPS, MA Boston - JPS | Time type: Full time | Posted on: Posted 3 Days Ago | Job requisitionid: R0059652

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Position Summary:

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to build and lead a new team of engineers passionate about developing engineering solutionstools, frameworks, and automationin planning domains. This role will enable application teams to deliver enterprise-wide products that are high-performing, efficient, and reliable. Your work will span workloads across On-prem, Azure, and AWS, offering opportunities to solve complex multi-cloud problems and significantly impact customer experience and our technological transformation.

Position Description:

The Senior Manager will be an engineering leader overseeing staff working to ensure a frictionless customer experience and maintaining high standards of reliability and availability. Success in this role involves delivering high-quality technology products in a hyper-growth environment with shifting priorities. The ideal candidate possesses broad and deep technical expertise in application performance, capacity benchmarking, cloud/infrastructure architecture, and operational problem-solving.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Senior Manager, you will:

• Collaborate with application teams to address performance, efficiency, and reliability issues sustainably.
• Influence and develop a vision with application owners for faster, quality product releases.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of team strategies and execution.
• Develop and motivate teams to solve complex problems and advocate for open-source solutions.
• Be hands-on in coding and building highly available systems.
• Build and mentor a new team of software engineers.
• Drive solutions aligned with long-term goals while managing technical debt efficiently.
• Lead in Site Reliability Engineering, Operational excellence, and DevOps principles.
• Identify workload and cost optimization opportunities.
• Share best practices and improve processes across teams.

Qualifications:

• Hands-on Software Engineering Manager with expertise in Capacity, Infrastructure, and FinOps Engineering.
• Proficiency in at least one modern language such as Python, Java, or Go; open-source experience is a plus.
• Experience managing infrastructure via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Strong knowledge of Cloud Architecture, Performance Benchmarking, Capacity Planning, and Reliability tools.
• Expertise in Container Orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), OS optimization.
• Experience with Observability platforms, monitoring tools, and performance analysis.
• Proven ability to manage and grow technical teams and leaders.
• Deep understanding of data structures and algorithms.

Required qualifications and experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years in software engineering, including lifecycle practices.
• 5+ years in large-scale, mission-critical environments.
• 5+ years supervising technical personnel.
• 2+ years experience with automated testing (Unit, Integration, End-to-End).

Annual Salary: $150,000.00 - $300,000.00

The salary range is a guideline; final compensation depends on multiple factors including experience, education, location, and market considerations. GEICO may sponsor employment authorization for qualified applicants.

The GEICO Pledge:

We promote a culture of inclusion, integrity, and shared success, valuing diverse perspectives and fostering a supportive environment. Our benefits include comprehensive rewards, flexible work arrangements, and employee recognition programs.

GEICO is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.