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Senior Staff Engineer

GEICO

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

10/15/2026

Compensation

$130,000 - $260,000 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.7% approval-61% YoY
✓ Established sponsor

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join their Site Reliability Engineering team. This role focuses on developing high-performance, maintainable platforms and applications while ensuring reliability and scalability. The engineer will work on large-scale systems, participate in on-call rotations, and drive technical initiatives across multiple teams. The position emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and technical excellence within a diverse and innovative environment.

Requirements

  • Expertise in at least two modern programming languages such as Go, Python, or Java.
  • Strong ownership and accountability with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Hands-on experience in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
  • Experience managing distributed systems in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
  • 10+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, and infrastructure management.
  • 8+ years of experience as either a SRE or DevOps team member.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and drive the overall strategy for enterprise Change and Approval Management.
  • Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, providing strategic and technical guidance.
  • Utilize programming languages like Go, Python, and Java, and work with SQL/NoSQL databases.
  • Work with container orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenStack.
  • Architect and develop cloud-native applications using Azure services.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and stakeholders to solve complex challenges.
  • Ensure the quality, performance, and usability of engineering solutions.
  • Serve as a mentor and thought leader, coaching engineers and influencing executives.
  • Continuously improve processes, adopt best practices, and drive operational efficiency.
  • Support and participate in on-call rotations, responding to incidents and conducting post-incident reviews.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Government Employee Insurance Company Geico

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

35

FY2026

Approval rate

99.7%

FY2026

LCA certified

318

FY2026

Entry-level share

2.5%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

-61%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

+3%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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