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
- 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 security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP)
Benefits
The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. 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.
Pay
$100,000.00 - $260,000.00
Schedule
Full-time