Senior Engineering Manager - Database Platform (REMOTE)

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's PaaS organization continues to grow! We are actively seeking a Senior Staff Engineering Manager to lead the Database Platform team (DBaaS), guiding strategy and execution of building out the relational database platform. ​Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems.

*The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building database platforms (DBaaS), specifically with open source.  At GEICO, our managers are technical members of our team and are expected to work with individual contributors to develop the system design and have the coding skills necessary to implement the solution. 

Position Responsibilities 

​​As a Senior Staff Engineering Manager, you will: 

• Lead the team responsible for designing, building and operating SQL/Postgres/Cassandra as part of our database platform (DBaaS)

• Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time 

• ​Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery 

• ​Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members 

• ​Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement  

• ​Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust 

• ​Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable

• ​Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies 

• ​Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance 

Qualifications 

• Proven experience building out enterprise-scale platform services, ideally hosting relational and/or non-relational workloads

• Strong knowledge of operating Cassandra at scale

• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)

• Working knowledge of object-oriented development

• Proven ability to demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly

• Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) platform knowledge

• Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as Github and Azure DevOps

• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts

• Fluency with RESTful Web Services and Event Driven Architectures

• Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus

• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments

• Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action 

 Experience 

• ​​6+ years coding experience

• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment

• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment

• 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing

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Education 

• ​​Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience

Annual Salary

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 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.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• 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.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• 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.

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.