Staff Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- Technical lead with full-stack software development and DevSecOps 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 DevOps concepts and best practices in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as a code
- Experience with application performance monitoring tools and performance assessments
- Ability to design, implement, deploy, and operate systems to solve complex security problems in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Strong knowledge of industry-standard security tools, frameworks, and best practices including MITRE, CIS and NIST
- Experience working with auditors and demonstrating security controls
Qualifications
- Experience 8+ years of non-internship professional software engineering experience of building large-scale distributed systems
- Experience with architecture and design in a tech lead role
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers
- Experience with open-source frameworks
- Foundational knowledge of security best practices for system design and development
- Experience of building applications for security domain
- Experience of assessing security vulnerabilities and driving their remediation is a plus
- Professional security certification (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP) is a plus
Skills
- Full-stack software development and DevSecOps experience
- Experience in Cybersecurity domain, preferably in Vulnerability Management Engineering
- Specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, Python or C#
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems on cloud
- Experience with DevOps concepts and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with application performance monitoring tools
- Experience with security tools, frameworks, and best practices
- Experience with cloud providers
- Experience with open-source frameworks
- Experience with security best practices
- Experience with security certifications
Benefits
The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. GEICO offers a comprehensive Total Rewards program that includes 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.
Pay
$100,000.00 - $260,000.00 Annual Salary. 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.
Schedule
Not specified.