Distinguished Engineer - Business Continuity, Governance, and Platform Resilience

GEICO . For more information, please .GEICO is seeking an experienced Distinguished Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms and applications. You will help drive our enterprise transformation by establishing engineering excellence as a core mission, with a specific focus on organizational resilience, strategic risk management, and rigorous technical governance. This role demands mastery of reliability, availability, software engineering, and best practices in BCDR.

• Position Description
• Our Distinguished Engineer works with Principal and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, dramatically improve, and enhance existing systems, and identify new opportunities to apply deep knowledge to solve critical enterprise problems. You will lead the technical strategy and execution of a roadmap that increases product delivery velocity while ensuring absolute platform resilience. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of technology, risk management, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, and strategic planning to design and implement resilient systems that safeguard our business from potential threats, enforce organizational compliance, and ensure predictable operation.
• Position Responsibilities
• As a Distinguished Engineer, you will : This domain focuses on establishing the core requirements for enterprise survival and recovery from major disruptions. The Distinguished Engineer is responsible for driving the technical BCDR strategy, ensuring it aligns with critical business and regulatory goals. This involves conducting comprehensive risk assessments, leading the architecture of highly resilient systems (embedding BCDR early in the design phase), and defining organization-wide The role is centered on institutionalizing technical excellence across the organization. The Distinguished Engineer serves as a key leader within the
• Architecture Review Board
• , setting and rigorously enforcing architectural standards, policies, and blueprints. Responsibilities include ensuring that all major technology investments are strategically aligned with business objectives and compliance requirements, enforcing domain consistency across architecture layers, and driving strategic modernization efforts to maximize scalability and coherence. This function transitions strategic resilience into operational reality, leveraging Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. The Distinguished Engineer leads the SRE strategy by establishing and monitoring and error budgets to effectively balance feature velocity with mandatory stability. Key duties include developing and maintaining comprehensive incident response plans, runbooks, and playbooks, driving automation to achieve low As the senior technical individual contributor, the Distinguished Engineer is tasked with deep organizational and financial influence. The role requires acting as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders on resilience and governance matters, while simultaneously serving as a role model and mentor to coach senior and principal engineering talent. Finally, the DE analyzes cost and forecast data, playing a critical role in strategic financial stewardship, particularly in
• Cloud Spend Optimization
• related to stateful services and data persistence.
• Qualifications
• Deep knowledge of SRE practices, methodologies, and principles, along with a solid understanding of cloud-based compute, network, and storage technologies. Strong background in incident management (a core function of Case Management in platform operations), including the ability to create incident response playbooks, runbooks, and perform rigorous post-incident analysis to drive continuous improvement in reliability and availability. Expertise in distributed systems architecture, replication topologies, and distributed consistency patterns to meet stringent RTO and RPO requirements.In-depth knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture, IaaS and PaaS technologies, container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes), and cloud efficiency. Experience with infrastructure automation, tooling, and configuration management frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform). Exceptional leadership and communication skills, with a passion for mentoring and fostering professional growth. Visionary thinker with the ability to anticipate future challenges and opportunities in resilience and governance.
• Experience
• 12+ years
• of professional software development experience
• 10+ years
• of experience with architecture and design of experience in open-source frameworks
• 6+ years
• of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• Education
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
• 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.For more than 75 years, GEICO has stood out from the rest of the insurance industry! We are one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing auto insurers thanks to our low rates, outstanding service and clever marketing. We're an industry leader employing thousands of dedicated and hard-working associates. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, we offer associates training and career advancement in a financially stable and rewarding workplace.

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