GEICO
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Governance
Bethesda, MD, USA · Staff+
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$17,462 more — $127,462 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $127,462 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain
- Willing to take on-call and operation support
- Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
- Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
Requirements
- Experience with governance and policy engines such as Cloud Custodian, Open Policy Agent (OPA).
- Advance knowledge of at least one OOP languages such as Go or Python
- Strong understanding of web service integration (REST/SOAP) and enterprise middleware integration tiers
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
- Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
- Knowledge in big data, streaming data and ETL pipeline architecture
- Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
- Knowledge in ML and AI technologies
Nice to have
- Experience with open-source software is a plus
Compensation
- $110,000.00 - $260,000.00 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.
- Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
Benefits
- Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning
Company info
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning
This listing is sourced directly from GEICO's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.