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
- Tech-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
- Cybersecurity domain experience, preferably in Vulnerability Management Engineering
- Modern languages such as Java, Go, Python or C#
- DevOps concepts and best practices
- Cloud provider experience (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Open-source frameworks
- Security best practices
- Security certifications (CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP)
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. Additionally, GEICO provides financial benefits such as mental healthcare, fertility and adoption assistance, and supports flexibility with workplace flexibility and the GEICO Flex program.
Pay
$100,000.00 - $260,000.00 Annual Salary Range. Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education and training, work location, and market and business considerations are taken into account to determine the final hourly rate/annual salary.
Schedule
Not specified.