Distinguished Engineer – Agentic AI & Enterprise Productivity

Why Join GEICO?

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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.

Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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.

**This is a Hybrid role 2x a week**

Position Summary

Our Distinguished Engineer acts as an enterprise architect and technical leader, responsible for defining and driving the architecture for agentic systems and enterprise integrations across GEICO. This role operates at the intersection of platform strategy and hands-on architecture, partnering closely with senior engineering leaders and teams to build scalable, production-grade solutions that power enterprise productivity.

Position Description

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in enterprise architecture, microservices, and cloud platforms, with a proven ability to influence across organizations and translate complex technical strategies into scalable implementations. You will play a key role in ensuring this team not only delivers high-impact solutions, but also acts as a force multiplier—enabling broader engineering teams to adopt and scale AI capabilities safely and effectively across the enterprise.

Position Responsibilities

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will:

Focus on multiple areas and provide technical leadership to the enterprise

Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems

Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains

Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

Utilize programming languages like 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

Mentor and help coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

Influence and educate leadership at all levels

Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

Qualifications

Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design

Experience designing, integrating, or building solutions across enterprise collaboration and productivity platforms such as Slack, Outlook, Zoom, SharePoint, and Copilot, with a strong understanding of how to embed automation and AI-driven workflows into these ecosystems to improve user productivity and experience

Experience building products of micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)

Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture and Azure DevOps Operational Framework

Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting

Experience in existing operational portals such as Azure Portal

Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments

Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform and its native services

Experience in security protocols and products: understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

Experience in Azure Network (subscription, security zoning, etc.)

In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

Experience with solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap

Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals

Experience

12+ years of professional software development experience within a Java framework (J2EE, web containers and Java)

10+ years of experience with architecture and design

6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

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

Annual Salary

$140,000.00 - $300,000.00

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: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and 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.