Our Principal Engineer works with Distinguished and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.
Position Responsibilities
- Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
- Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
- Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain
- Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
- Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
- Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability, and sponsor continuous learning
- Play a key role in the adoption of Azure/AWS/Public Cloud offerings in the enterprise, specifically provide guidance and/or recommendations for landing zone Architecture, RBAC, Managed Identity, and network specific requirements
- Take on-call and operation support
- Strong experience in developing simple solutions to complex problems, driving our engineering and cloud automation for networking resources such as VNet/Subnet/NSG/Firewall, VWAN, DNS, and Infoblox across multiple clouds (Azure/AWS)
- Working knowledge of networking concepts (DNS/DHCP/Firewalls/Sub-netting, etc.)
- Experience evaluating, designing, implementing, optimizing, and documenting a comprehensive and extensive array of Cloud security technologies and processes.
- Strong experience on common policy as code tools including Puppet, Chef, Open Policy Agent, and more
- Good knowledge for some of the languages: C, C# or other object-oriented languages, Go Lang, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, shell script, Powershell etc.
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube
- Expert in designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to manage Cloud resources using Terraform
- Experience with technical software development for Platform Engineering domain
- Experience with CI/CD automation
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
- Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals
- Experience with Go open-source programming language is a plus
- Expertise in Azure Functions, Azure Web Apps, and AWS Lambda
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- Experience with C# and .NET programing
- Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
- 6+ years of professional PaaS and IaaS experience
- 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 3+ 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
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Benefits:
- to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:
- Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
- Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Training and Licensures
- Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.