Senior Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience
GEICO
Palo Alto, California
Full-Time
$115,000
RemoteSenior
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.
GEICO is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our AI Assisted Developer Experience team. You will be part of a team of engineers that will develop the discipline, frameworks, tooling, for building software aided by AI, in a highly secure, performant, auditable, and repeatable fashion.
Position Responsibilities
Platform & Tooling
- Design and own the internal developer platform — CI/CD pipelines, local dev environments, build systems, and deployment workflows — with measurable impact on DORA metrics
- Evaluate, integrate, and govern AI coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering teams, including rollout strategy, usage policy, and ROI measurement
- Build and maintain AI-powered tooling: code generation scaffolds, intelligent PR reviewers, automated documentation generators, and context-aware onboarding assistants
- Define and enforce standards for IDE configuration, linting, formatting, and code generation prompts across polyglot environments
Developer Productivity
- Identify and eliminate friction in the software development lifecycle through data — measure time-to-first-PR, build times, incident MTTR, and cognitive load
- Architect agentic workflows that automate repetitive engineering tasks (boilerplate generation, dependency upgrades, test scaffolding, changelog authoring)
- Own the inner dev loop: hot reload, local service mocking, test data generation, and environment parity between local and production
- Drive adoption of prompt engineering best practices and RAG-based internal knowledge tooling (runbooks, architecture docs, incident history)
Architecture & Standards
- Set technical direction for developer-facing APIs, SDKs, and CLI tooling consumed by internal engineering teams
- Establish LLM integration patterns — context window management, prompt versioning, output validation, hallucination guardrails — as reusable internal libraries
- Define AI-assisted code review standards: what tooling enforces, what humans own, and escalation paths for ambiguous cases
- Lead architectural reviews with a DX lens, ensuring new systems are observable, testable, and locally runnable from day one
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Partner with security and compliance to govern AI tool usage — data residency, secret handling, acceptable use policies for LLM-generated code
- Represent developer experience in roadmap planning, translating engineering pain points into prioritized platform investments
- Mentor staff and senior engineers on AI-augmented development practices; run internal enablement programs and brown bags
- Influence hiring by defining technical bar for DX-adjacent roles and contributing to interview design
Measures of Success
- Reduction in time-to-production for new services
- Increase in developer satisfaction scores (quarterly survey)
- Reduction in toil hours per engineer per sprint
- Adoption rate and productivity lift from AI tooling
Qualifications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years at Staff level or above owning platform or infrastructure domains
- Demonstrated track record of building and shipping internal developer tooling adopted at scale (100+ engineers)
- Deep expertise in CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Buildkite, or equivalent) and modern build tooling
- Production experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) into developer workflows — prompt design, output validation, cost management
- Strong proficiency in at least two languages across different paradigms (e.g. Go,
TypeScript, Rust + Python) — credibility across polyglot engineering orgs
- Ability to drive technical consensus across multiple senior stakeholders without direct authority
Education
Bachelor's degree or master's degree in information technology or related field, or equivalent experience
Annual Salary
$115,000.00 - $260,000.00The 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.
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.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.