Staff Software Engineer - Cybersecurity

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.

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GEICO is seeking an experienced full-stack engineer with a deep technical expertise and passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime, and highly scalable systems. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of design, development, and implementation of scalable solutions in hybrid environments using commercial and open-source products, preferably in Cybersecurity domain. This role will be responsible for leading enterprise initiatives and collaboration with cross-functional teams as well as designing and implementing secure and scalable solutions to drive Vulnerability Management initiatives.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you’re not just a technical expert—you’re a lead, a problem solver, an innovator who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment. You will turn complex security challenges into elegant, practical solutions while fostering collaboration across teams and stakeholders.

Senior Staff Engineer works closely with infrastructure, development, product managers, and other organizations across GEICO to integrate security into the ecosystem from design through deployment to sustainable operations. The Staff Engineer brings in expertise in requirements identification, feasibility analysis, secure infrastructure designs, technology evaluation and selection, and implementation of scalable systems using CI/CD and Dev Sec Ops  to raise the bar on engineering excellence and security best practices.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:

• Provide technical leadership for cybersecurity program strategy, software development, integration decisions, analyzing design constraints and trade-offs in system and security design
• Lead design, development, and delivery of security solutions to drive Vulnerability Management initiatives.
• Deliver automation initiatives, conduct advanced research, and develop proofs of concept to enhance our security capabilities and improve overall efficiency
• Achieve security business outcomes through force multiplication
• Develop, integrate, and maintain multilevel cybersecurity designs, architectures, policies, and procedures
• Provide secure design guidance and recommendations to developers, infrastructure, and product engineers
• Influence and educate partner teams to bring an engineering first approach to develop sustainable security systems.
• Mentor peers and team members in security technologies, enterprise solution design, deployment, and effective customer interaction
• Provide motivating demonstrations and communications to show the value of our security measures to the business, highlighting the low impact on systems, improved operability and resiliency

• Tech-lead with full-stack software development and Dev Sec Ops  experience in a hybrid environment (AWS, Azure, on-prem)
• Development and leadership in Cybersecurity domain, preferably in Vulnerability Management Engineering
• Specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, Python or C#, and a scripting language
• Extensive knowledge and experience of building data intensive large-scale distributed systems on cloud
• Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• Fluency in Dev Ops concepts and best practices in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
• Experience with application performance monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Ability to design, implement, deploy, and operate systems to…