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. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.GEICO is seeking a Senior Software Engineer whos passionate about building high-performance, low-latency platforms and applications. Youll be a key player in our engineering transformation, specifically by driving the development of our enterprise-grade Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform for Postgres. This is a fantastic opportunity for a hands-on engineer who thrives on automation and empowering development teams to manage their data with ease. Position Description: Our Senior Software Engineer will partner with Distinguished and Staff Engineers to innovate, build, and enhance our core systems, identifying new opportunities to solve critical problems. Youll lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap, accelerating product delivery and unlocking new engineering capabilities within our database platform domain.This role is absolutely central to our mission: providing a robust, highly automated, and self-service Postgres DBaaS platform across GEICO. Your work will enable application teams to seamlessly provision, manage, and operate their own Postgres databases, shifting focus from manual operations to powerful automation.Position Responsibilities: As a Senior Software Engineer, you will: <ul><li>Collaborate closely with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to tackle complex challenges in database platform development</li><li>Develop and execute the technical software development strategy for our Postgres DBaaS platform, focusing on self-service capabilities, business continuity and overall operational efficiency</li><li>Build and refine self-service features that empower application teams to independently manage their databases, including performance tuning, failover, and data recovery</li><li>Work extensively with Kubernetes to deploy and manage Postgres workloads across our cloud infrastructure, with a deep understanding of persistent data requirements for containerized databases</li><li>Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the Postgres DBaaS solutions you deliver</li><li>Consistently share best practices and improve processes both within your team and across other engineering groups</li></ul>Qualifications: <ul><li>Advanced knowledge of at least one modern OOP language such as C#, Go or Python</li><li>Deep, hands-on experience in complex system design and architectures, with a strong focus on scale, performance tuning, Docker, and Kubernetes</li><li>Good understanding in Postgres internals, encompassing performance optimization, query analysis, replication strategies, backup/restore, data integrity, and high availability configurations</li><li>Experience in architecting, designing and building automation, workflows, and distributed applications</li><li>Good knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and best practices for running stateful database workloads on Kubernetes</li><li>Proven experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines and automating software deployments</li><li>Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform</li><li>Strong Test-Driven Development practices (e.g., unit, functional, integration, load, etc.)</li><li>Understanding of security best practices (e.g., certificates, encryption, data privacy)</li><li>Strong understanding of service integrations / communication standards (e.g., gRPC / REST)</li><li>Excellent communication skills</li></ul>Experience: <ul><li>5+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, and automation</li><li>3+ years of experience with architecture and design of scalable and resilient systems</li><li>3+ years of experience with Azure, AWS or hybrid data center environments</li><li>2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks related to infrastructure or database management</li></ul>Education: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience</li></ul>#LI-FA1  Annual Salary$80,000.00 - $215,000.00The 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.  GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.  The GEICO Pledge: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.We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.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 an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.<ul><li>Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.</li><li>Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.</li><li>Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.</li><li>Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.</li></ul>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.