Staff Software Engineer

Position summary

Responsibilities

• Drive the System Catalog and CMDB strategy in alignment with business goals, operating model, and technology processes.
• Own the configuration data model, governance, CI lifecycle, ownership, reconciliation rules, and data-quality standards.
• Design resilient, scalable catalog and CMDB systems and automated discovery and service mapping across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
• Evaluate and implement technologies to improve catalog capabilities, processes, compliance, and visibility.
• Partner with executives, IT teams, and stakeholders; communicate the value of accurate configuration data and foster ownership.
• Mentor engineers and product colleagues, educate executives, and contribute to business plans, cost forecasts, and outcome measurement.

Experience requirements

• At least 10 years of professional software engineering experience and 8 years of architecture and design experience.
• At least 6 years working with open-source frameworks and 4 years with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.
• Demonstrated enterprise-scale experience building or owning a system catalog, service catalog, or configuration management.
• Experience with data modeling, taxonomy or ontology design, master/reference data, data quality, reconciliation, and drift detection.

Technical qualifications

• Software development specialization using modern programming languages such as Go, Python, TypeScript, and React.
• Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, including graph databases.
• Strong REST and/or GraphQL API design experience, including versioning and schema governance.
• Experience with networking, caches, key/value stores, load balancing, queues, DNS, and CDN as configuration items.
• Knowledge of hybrid cloud, IaaS and PaaS, Kubernetes, observability, and infrastructure automation such as Ansible or Terraform.

Additional qualifications

• Leadership, communication, mentoring, problem-solving, analytical, and operational-excellence capabilities.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Compensation

• Annual salary range: USD 110,000 to USD 230,000; the posting also refers to an hourly rate when describing factors used to determine pay.

Benefits

• GEICO describes development programs, mentorship, certification assistance, competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility.