Position Description
Our Principal Engineer is a lead member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.
Responsibilities:
As a Principal Engineer, you will:
- Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
- Own complete solution across its entire life cycle
- Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications
- Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
- Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
- Utilize programming languages like JAVA .NET, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
- Mentoring junior team members to help them achieve success in their goals and to be successful in their contributions to the projects effectively
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Proficiency in Java - Fluency and Specialization with any other modern language such as C# or Python is a plus
- Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
- Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
- Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting
- Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
- Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments: Splunk or Application Insights
- Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services
- Experience in security protocols & products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
- Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc)
- Experience in Genesis
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
- 6+ years of professional software development experience within a Java framework (J2EE, web containers and Java)
- 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
- 1+ years of people management experience
- Exposure to identity management systems and secure coding practices is desired.
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.