Staff Cyber Software Engineer

GEICO • Bethesda, MD

5d • Remote

About The Position

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 through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. GEICO's Cybersecurity Security Engineering & Analytics, Automation (SEA) team is seeking a Staff Cyber Software Engineer — a hands-on, passionate builder who is energized by solving hard problems and writing software that matters. This is a strong individual contributor role for someone who takes pride in their craft, thrives in a high-velocity agile environment, and finds deep satisfaction in delivering automation, building resilient systems, and making security capabilities faster and smarter through code. If you love shipping, iterating, and making things work — this role is for you. As a Staff Cyber Software Engineer, you will be a key technical contributor on the Cybersecurity Engineering & Analytics team — writing and owning production-grade software that powers security automation, detection pipelines, and cyber hygiene capabilities. You bring deep, applied Python expertise (required) and ideally Golang experience (preferred), strong object-oriented engineering fundamentals, and a relentless drive to solve problems through automation and elegant code. You are self-directed, productive in an agile team, and passionate about the craft of software development. Experience with AI/ML and a working understanding of LLMs is a meaningful differentiator.

Requirements

• Demonstrated enterprise-level Python development with strong OOP fundamentals. This is a non-negotiable requirement for consideration.
• Hands-on Golang development experience in systems, backend services, or tooling contexts.
• Deep, applied knowledge of OOP design patterns, SOLID principles, and clean architecture — demonstrated through real production code, not theory.
• Track record of identifying opportunities to automate workflows, eliminate toil, and build tools that scale — and the initiative to go build them.
• Proven ability to deliver consistently within a high-velocity agile team; comfortable with continuous delivery, iterative development, and a fast feedback cycle.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems, data ingestion pipelines, and scalable backend services.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and cloud-native services.
• Experience building and maintaining pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and deploying infrastructure with Terraform or Ansible.
• Exposure to SIEMs, EDRs, vulnerability scanners, or security automation tooling; DevSecOps experience is a 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.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication; able to articulate technical trade-offs and work effectively with teammates and stakeholders.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, with strong Python production experience required.
• 6+ years building backend systems, platform tooling, security automation, or similar.
• 4+ years working in cloud-native environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• 3+ years delivering within agile teams in a high-velocity environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Nice To Haves

• Golang Proficiency (Preferred)
• Security Domain Familiarity (Preferred)
• AI/ML & LLM Experience (Plus)
• Golang (in addition to Python) hands-on development experience is a strong differentiator.
• Experience with AI/ML development, LLMs, or generative AI tooling is a meaningful plus.
• Security engineering, DevSecOps, or cybersecurity tooling experience is a plus.
• Experience working with audit or compliance teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software in Python (required) and Golang (preferred) that enables cybersecurity capabilities and drives security outcomes at enterprise scale.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Develop services and pipelines that are secure, fault-tolerant, and performant — built with distributed systems best practices and cloud-native infrastructure in mind.
• Embed software within CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible), and instrument work with observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus).
• Evaluate, adopt, and integrate open-source frameworks, security libraries, and tooling to accelerate delivery and avoid reinventing the wheel.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match
• performance and recognition-based incentives
• tuition assistance
• mental healthcare
• fertility and adoption assistance
• workplace flexibility
• GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior