Senior Manager, Staff SW Engineering – Platform Engineering

Role Overview

• Work with senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
• Lead the File Exchange Platform team responsible for GEICO's tier-1 secure file transfer service (~3M monthly transfers).
• Drive modernization from ticket-based operations to a self-service portal, and CMDB-driven self-certification, deliver high availability and geo-distributed resiliency across data centers, and meet NYDFS/PCI compliance and vulnerability SLAs while reducing onboarding cycle time and support burden.
• Lead the UPE team that defines the paved road for PaaS service providers — Platform SDKs (Python, Go, TypeScript, Java), Platform Client UI/UX, IaC as a Service.
• Standardize onboarding, provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management across public and private cloud; drive onboarding user experience; and deliver blueprint-IaC solutions for consistent, defect-free service integration.
• Drive shared engineering outcomes with UCP partners — advancing UCP to a production-ready tier-1 platform with audit trails, observability-as-code, governance and FinOps integration.
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Report on your team's progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
• Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals

Requirements

• 6+ years coding experience
• 5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising 10+ personnel in a technical environment
• 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
• Strong knowledge and skills in distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
• Proficient in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Python, C#, .NET, Go, or TypeScript.
• Experience driving enterprise-wide adoption of platform engineering practices including IaC (Terraform), developer portals, SDK-based onboarding, and unified control-plane architectures.
• Proven experience with secure file transfer technologies (SFTP, HTTPS), key management (PGP), compliance automation (NYDFS, PCI), and CMDB-driven certification workflows.
• Basic understanding and managing CI/CD toolchain products like Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube and IaC tools like Terraform.

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Java
• Jenkins
• Python
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• Go
• .NET

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Professional development opportunities
• Certification assistance
• Inclusive and collaborative culture