Staff Software Engineer, Vulnerability Management (HYBRID)

GEICO • Austin, TX

2d • $115,000 - $230,000 • Hybrid

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 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 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. You have exposure to Cybersecurity and Vulnerability Management Lifecycle - asset discovery, internal/external scans, contextualization and risk-based assessment, security data pipeline, reporting, and remediation. Staff Engineer works closely with infrastructure, development, product, and other organizations across GEICO from design through deployment to sustainable operations. The Staff Engineer brings in expertise in requirements identification, feasibility analysis, system designs, technology evaluation and selection, development, unit/integration testing, deployment, and operation of scalable systems using CI/CD and DevSecOps to raise the bar on engineering excellence.

Requirements

• Tech-lead with data engineering and software development experience in a hybrid environment (AWS, Azure, on-prem).
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Java, Scala, Go) and deep experience building scalable production-grade data services, APIs, or ingestion frameworks.
• Expertise in designing, building, and operating large‑scale, resilient, and high‑performance data pipelines across distributed systems, with strong knowledge of ETL/ELT patterns, data orchestration, and data quality frameworks.
• Advanced proficiency in modern data storage and processing technologies, including SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), query optimization, and data modeling for analytical and operational use cases.
• Hands‑on experience with reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent, including developing semantic models, optimizing reporting datasets, and enabling business teams with curated data.
• Strong applied skills in distributed compute ecosystems (e.g., Spark or similar), and the ability to optimize workloads for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
• 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.
• Development and leadership in Cybersecurity domain, preferably in Vulnerability Management Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of industry-standard security tools, frameworks, and best practices including MITRE, CIS and NIST.
• Experience working with auditors and demonstrating security controls.
• 8+ years of non-internship professional software and data 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 building and operating high‑performance data pipelines across distributed systems, with strong knowledge of ETL/ELT patterns, asynchronous data ingestion, data orchestration, and data quality frameworks using SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• Foundational knowledge of security best practices for system design and development
• Experience of building applications for security domain

Nice To Haves

• Experience of assessing security vulnerabilities and driving their remediation is a plus
• Professional security certification (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP) is a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead software design, development, and delivery of integrated systems to drive Vulnerability Management initiatives.
• Deliver automation initiatives, conduct advanced research, and develop proofs of concept to enhance our capabilities and improve overall efficiency.
• Achieve 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.

Benefits

• We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

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