Senior Software Engineer - Qualification & Delivery - Release Platform

Job Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in building the next-generation Release Platform and DevOps Tooling to empower our 3000+ engineers in the organization.

Position Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain internal Release Platform services and tooling to enable automated, robust, scalable, and observable software delivery workflows.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using tools like Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions.
• Develop policy-as-code governance frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enforce deployment rules, approvals, and compliance gates.
• Create self-service capabilities for developers, including standardized deployment workflows, configuration automation, and security integration.
• Collaborate with Cyber and Release Control teams to embed security guardrails, change gates, and auditability into the software delivery process.
• Implement observability best practices, including monitoring, logging, and tracing to improve deployment visibility and reliability.
• Implement and enforce deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, rolling updates) and fail-safe rollback mechanisms.
• Mentor junior engineers, perform code reviews, and advocate for engineering excellence across the team.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, platform, SRE, and application teams to deliver cohesive developer experiences.
• Continuously explore and integrate open-source innovations to enhance platform reliability, security, and developer productivity.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience developing internal developer platforms and DevOps tooling for large-scale organizations.
• Expertise in Python, Golang (Go), .NET and TypeScript, React for building scalable platform services and developer automation tools.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, including namespace management, service discovery, network policies, ingress/egress management, and service mesh.
• Practical experience implementing GitOps workflows.
• Advanced proficiency with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD platforms.
• Hands-on writing scripts to automate routine tasks using bash, Python scripting.
• Solid understanding of deployment strategies (blue/green, feature flag) and building resilient, automated rollout processes.
• Hands-on experience building Policy as Code frameworks using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking concepts: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, ingress controllers.
• Experience in multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) with a focus on containerized deployments and cloud-native services.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills for deployment failures, system performance issues, and network troubleshooting.

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.

Pay

Annual Salary $105,000.00 - $215,000.00. 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.

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 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.
• 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 that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial Benefits: Includes market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Additional Benefits: Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Workplace Flexibility: 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.