Staff Cyber Software Engineer

About the role

The GEICO Cybersecurity Security Engineering & Analytics (SEA) team is seeking a Staff Cyber Software Engineer. This role requires strong Python expertise and a passion for automation, with a focus on solving complex technical and security challenges through code.

Responsibilities

• Write and Own Production Code: Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software in Python (and Golang) that enables cybersecurity capabilities and drives security outcomes at enterprise scale.
• Build Security Automation: Identify manual, repetitive, or error-prone security workflows and replace them with reliable, well-tested automation — reducing toil and increasing the speed and consistency of security operations.
• Apply Strong Object-Oriented Engineering: Write clean, maintainable, and testable code using proven OOP design patterns and SOLID principles; take ownership of code quality, test coverage, and the long-term health of what you build.
• Solve Hard Problems: Dig into complex technical and security challenges — from detection pipeline performance to data ingestion at scale — and deliver well-reasoned, pragmatic solutions that hold up in production.
• Contribute Actively in Agile: Be a reliable, high-output contributor in a fast-moving agile squad: write code every sprint, participate in design discussions, engage in code reviews, and help the team move forward with quality and speed.
• Build Scalable, Reliable Systems: Develop services and pipelines that are secure, fault-tolerant, and performant — built with distributed systems best practices and cloud-native infrastructure in mind.
• Integrate with DevOps Tooling: Embed software within CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible), and instrument work with observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus).
• Leverage Open Source: Evaluate, adopt, and integrate open-source frameworks, security libraries, and tooling to accelerate delivery and avoid reinventing the wheel.
• Explore AI/ML & LLMs (Plus): Apply knowledge of AI/ML development, large language models (LLMs), or generative AI to identify practical opportunities that accelerate security workflows, automate threat analysis, or improve detection capabilities.
• Share Knowledge: Participate in code reviews, contribute to technical discussions, and share what you know — not as a formal leadership obligation, but because great engineers make the people around them better.

Qualifications

• Python Expertise (Required): Demonstrated enterprise-level Python development with strong OOP fundamentals.
• Golang Proficiency (Preferred): Hands-on Golang development experience in systems, backend services, or tooling contexts.
• Object-Oriented Design: Deep, applied knowledge of OOP design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean architecture — demonstrated through real production code, not theory.
• Passion for Automation: Track record of identifying opportunities to automate workflows, eliminate toil, and build tools that scale — and the initiative to go build them.
• Agile Team Contributor: Proven ability to deliver consistently within a high-velocity agile team; comfortable with continuous delivery, iterative development, and a fast feedback cycle.
• Distributed Systems & Pipelines: Experience building and operating distributed systems, data ingestion pipelines, and scalable backend services.
• Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and cloud-native services.
• CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code: Experience building and maintaining pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and deploying infrastructure with Terraform or Ansible.
• Security Domain Familiarity (Preferred): Exposure to SIEMs, EDRs, vulnerability scanners, or security automation tooling; DevSecOps experience is a plus.
• Experience with AI/ML & LLM Experience (Plus): Working knowledge of AI/ML development, applied experience with LLMs or generative AI, and an eye for where these capabilities can add real value.
• Communication: Clear, concise written and verbal communication; able to articulate technical trade-offs and work effectively with teammates and stakeholders.

Annual Salary

$110,000.00 - $230,000.00

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.