GEICO
Distinguished Engineer - Business Continuity, Governance, and Platform Resilienc
GEICO, New York, New York, us, 10261
Distinguished Engineer - Business Continuity, Governance, and Platform Resilience
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Base pay range $140,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr
Position Summary GEICO is seeking an experienced Distinguished Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms and applications. You will help drive our enterprise transformation by establishing engineering excellence as a core mission, with a specific focus on organizational resilience, strategic risk management, and rigorous technical governance. This role demands mastery of reliability, availability, software engineering, and best practices in BCDR.
Position Description Our Distinguished Engineer works with Principal and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, dramatically improve and enhance existing systems, and identify new opportunities to apply deep knowledge to solve critical enterprise problems. You will lead the technical strategy and execution of a roadmap that increases product delivery velocity while ensuring absolute platform resilience. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of technology, risk management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, and strategic planning to design and implement resilient systems that safeguard our business from potential threats, enforce organizational compliance, and ensure predictable operation.
Position Responsibilities
Enterprise Resilience and BCDR Strategy: drive the technical BCDR strategy, conduct risk assessments, lead architecture of highly resilient systems, define RTO/RPO metrics, validate through simulations and chaos engineering.
Governance, Standards, and Architectural Oversight: serve on the Architecture Review Board, enforce standards, align technology investments with business and compliance, drive modernization.
Operational Excellence and Case Management: lead SRE strategy, establish SLOs and error budgets, maintain incident response plans, runbooks, playbooks, automate to lower MTTR, analyze incidents to improve MTBF.
Leadership and Strategic Influence: advise executives on resilience and governance, mentor senior and principal engineers, analyze cost and forecast data, drive cloud spend optimization.
Qualifications
Fluency and specialization in software development and best practices using modern programming languages.
Deep knowledge of SRE practices, methodologies, and principles, along with a solid understanding of cloud-based compute, network, and storage technologies.
Strong background in incident management and creating response playbooks, runbooks, and rigorous post-incident analysis.
Expertise in distributed systems architecture, replication topologies, and consistency patterns to meet stringent RTO/RPO requirements.
Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, stateful services management, storage, and optimization strategies for resilience and cloud cost efficiency.
In-depth knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture, IaaS and PaaS technologies, container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud efficiency.
Experience with infrastructure automation, tooling, and configuration management frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a passion for mentoring and professional growth.
Visionary thinker with the ability to anticipate future challenges and opportunities in resilience and governance.
Proven track record of successfully leading, designing, and delivering complex engineering projects in large and complex organizations.
Experience
12+ years of professional software development experience
10+ years of experience with architecture and design
6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
Education Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
Annual Salary $140,000.00 - $300,000.00
Annual Salary Range Note The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
Benefits At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, Great Careers.
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future. Comprehensive Total Rewards program offers personalized coverage; financial benefits include market-competitive compensation, a 401K savings plan vested from day one with 6% match, performance and recognition-based incentives, tuition assistance; access to mental healthcare, fertility and adoption assistance; and workplace flexibility through the GEICO Flex program.
Equal Employment Opportunity The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
Seniority Level Mid-Senior level
Employment Type Full-time
Job Function Engineering and Information Technology
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Base pay range $140,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr
Position Summary GEICO is seeking an experienced Distinguished Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms and applications. You will help drive our enterprise transformation by establishing engineering excellence as a core mission, with a specific focus on organizational resilience, strategic risk management, and rigorous technical governance. This role demands mastery of reliability, availability, software engineering, and best practices in BCDR.
Position Description Our Distinguished Engineer works with Principal and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, dramatically improve and enhance existing systems, and identify new opportunities to apply deep knowledge to solve critical enterprise problems. You will lead the technical strategy and execution of a roadmap that increases product delivery velocity while ensuring absolute platform resilience. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of technology, risk management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, and strategic planning to design and implement resilient systems that safeguard our business from potential threats, enforce organizational compliance, and ensure predictable operation.
Position Responsibilities
Enterprise Resilience and BCDR Strategy: drive the technical BCDR strategy, conduct risk assessments, lead architecture of highly resilient systems, define RTO/RPO metrics, validate through simulations and chaos engineering.
Governance, Standards, and Architectural Oversight: serve on the Architecture Review Board, enforce standards, align technology investments with business and compliance, drive modernization.
Operational Excellence and Case Management: lead SRE strategy, establish SLOs and error budgets, maintain incident response plans, runbooks, playbooks, automate to lower MTTR, analyze incidents to improve MTBF.
Leadership and Strategic Influence: advise executives on resilience and governance, mentor senior and principal engineers, analyze cost and forecast data, drive cloud spend optimization.
Qualifications
Fluency and specialization in software development and best practices using modern programming languages.
Deep knowledge of SRE practices, methodologies, and principles, along with a solid understanding of cloud-based compute, network, and storage technologies.
Strong background in incident management and creating response playbooks, runbooks, and rigorous post-incident analysis.
Expertise in distributed systems architecture, replication topologies, and consistency patterns to meet stringent RTO/RPO requirements.
Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, stateful services management, storage, and optimization strategies for resilience and cloud cost efficiency.
In-depth knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture, IaaS and PaaS technologies, container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud efficiency.
Experience with infrastructure automation, tooling, and configuration management frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a passion for mentoring and professional growth.
Visionary thinker with the ability to anticipate future challenges and opportunities in resilience and governance.
Proven track record of successfully leading, designing, and delivering complex engineering projects in large and complex organizations.
Experience
12+ years of professional software development experience
10+ years of experience with architecture and design
6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
Education Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
Annual Salary $140,000.00 - $300,000.00
Annual Salary Range Note The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
Benefits At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, Great Careers.
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future. Comprehensive Total Rewards program offers personalized coverage; financial benefits include market-competitive compensation, a 401K savings plan vested from day one with 6% match, performance and recognition-based incentives, tuition assistance; access to mental healthcare, fertility and adoption assistance; and workplace flexibility through the GEICO Flex program.
Equal Employment Opportunity The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
Seniority Level Mid-Senior level
Employment Type Full-time
Job Function Engineering and Information Technology
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