Staff Software Engineer - Cybersecurity

GEICO•Bethesda, MD

19h•$100,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. This role will be responsible for leading enterprise initiatives and collaboration with cross-functional teams as well as designing and implementing secure and scalable solutions to drive Vulnerability Management initiatives. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you’re not just a technical expert—you’re a lead, a problem solver, an innovator who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment. You will turn complex security challenges into elegant, practical solutions while fostering collaboration across teams and stakeholders. Senior Staff Engineer works closely with infrastructure, development, product managers, and other organizations across GEICO to integrate security into the ecosystem from design through deployment to sustainable operations. The Staff Engineer brings in expertise in requirements identification, feasibility analysis, secure infrastructure designs, technology evaluation and selection, and implementation of scalable systems using CI/CD and DevSecOps to raise the bar on engineering excellence and security best practices.

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
8+ years of non-internship professional software engineering experience of building large-scale distributed systems
4+ years of experience with architecture and design in a tech lead role
4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers
3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
Foundational knowledge of security best practices for system design and development
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education with work experience

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