Distinguished Engineer, Policy Platform

GEICO GEICO · Insurance · Palo Alto, CA +3

Distinguished Engineer role focused on the architecture and design of GEICO's policy platform, aiming to redefine how insurance policies are built, managed, and evolved. The role involves leading technical strategy for modernization, large-scale migrations, and building world-class, modular, and resilient services for intelligent automation. Requires deep technical breadth in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, data pipelines, and service mesh patterns.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
  2. Collaborate across teams and the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
  3. Deliver high-scale and high-quality data architecture, especially legacy-to-modern platform transitions.
  4. Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains
  5. Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

Skills

Required

  • distributed systems
  • cloud-native architectures
  • data pipelines
  • service mesh patterns
  • ETL
  • SQL
  • bitemporal data modeling
  • temporal databases
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
  • Java
  • Python
  • Kafka
  • API driven system migration
  • event-driven architectures
  • messaging-based solutions
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • C#
  • C++
  • object-oriented design
  • SAAS products / platforms
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • OpenStack

Nice to have

  • graphQL
  • gRPC
  • Java
  • Python
  • Kafka
  • C#
  • C++
  • SQL
  • NoSQL databases
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • OpenStack

What the JD emphasized

  • deep technical breadth
  • legacy-to-modern platform transitions
  • API driven system migration
  • event-driven and messaging-based solutions at scale
  • data observability, traceability, and multi-faceted testing