Software Engineer II – IaaS (Platform and Tools - VMs)

About this role

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.
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.


Position Description
Our Software Engineers work with our Sr. Staff Engineers, Staff Engineers, and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.
The Platform and Tools team is dedicated to realizing a secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient next-generation virtual machine management and orchestration platform running on Kubernetes. We seek an ideal candidate with strong technical expertise in software engineering, virtual machines, containers, and upstream Kubernetes, along with proficiency in Kubevirt and the OpenStack, Azure, and AWS IaaS platforms/APIs.
Position Responsibilities
As an Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate with product managers, team membe...