Solutions Engineer Two Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

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.
Our Engineer II in Solutions Engineering will engineer solutions and empower the developer community with experiences, tools, and automated processes that reduce friction and improve developer satisfaction, flow, and cycle-times. This role will be heavily centered around engineer solutions with the goal to improve developer flow, reduce cycle times, and provide fast feedback loops. An important outcome of developer productivity engineering is to give developers hours back in the week in the developer experience so they can focus on accelerating solution delivery. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge supporting Full Stack development and developer productivity platforms with a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
Position Responsibilities
As an Engineer II, you will:

• Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
• Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
• Participate in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Utilize programming languages like GO, Java, Typescript, React, HTML, Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualifications

• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as GO, Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Understanding of micro frontends
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• Experience writing highly complex YAML pipeline/workflow code in GitHub
• Experience writing highly complex docker files or other containerization technologies such as Podman, Kaniko, containerd, etc.
• Experience writing highly complex YAML code for containers orchestration on different compute platforms
• Understanding of DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
• Intermediate PowerShell scripting skills
• Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform and its native services
• Understanding of security protocols and products: understanding of Azure Active, Directory, Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Analysis and Estimation skills
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Experience

• 2+ years of professional platform development or general development experience
• 2+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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Annual Salary
$75,000.00 - $160,000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career - and your potential - in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• 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.

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