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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Incident Prevention / Post Incident Correction of Errors

Bethesda, MD, USFull-time$110k2026-10-02 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building automation, self-service tools, dashboards, and data pipelines to scale Correction of Error (COE) workflows, automate incident tracking, and reduce manual follow-ups while improving root cause analysis quality and preventing repeat incidents.

Role type

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Technical Lead

Builds

Automated COE tooling, incident dashboards, data pipelines, and reliability automation platforms

Domain

Insurance / Distributed Systems / Observability / Reliability Engineering

Required skills

Go, Java, Python, C#, Kubernetes, serverless (KNative), SQL, NoSQL, Spark, Trino, Grafana, Superset, PowerBI, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, Azure Monitor, PagerDuty, AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot)

Preferred skills

Experience improving incident/post-incident review processes at scale, deep incident forensics, coaching engineering teams, cross-team influence in complex organizations

Technologies

Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, KNative, Spark, Trino, Grafana, Superset, PowerBI, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Splunk, Azure Monitor, PagerDuty, Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot

Responsibilities

Design and operate automation tools and dashboards to scale COE workflows; moderate weekly GEICO-wide COE presentation sessions; lead and improve the COE process across the engineering organization; provide technical leadership in system design and architecture for COE improvements; coach application engineering teams on root cause analysis and incident reporting; analyze distributed systems using logs, metrics, and traces to identify gaps and repeat patterns; partner with platform and operational teams to drive accountability and continuous improvement

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership