GEICO Cyber Security Engineering & Analytics Staff Engineer 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. GEICO's Cyber Security Engineering & Analytics (CSEA) team is seeking a Staff Engineer with strong software development expertise and deep cybersecurity experience. This role is ideal for an engineer passionate about building scalable, automated security solutions that reduce risk, improve posture, and increase cyber hygiene across a dynamic enterprise environment. You'll be a hands-on contributor working across engineering teams to deliver innovative security capabilities and automate controls, telemetry, and detection pipelines. We are looking for someone proficient in modern programming languages like Go and Python, and comfortable designing and developing systems that support Cybersecurity objectives. What You'll Do: Drive Security Automation: Build and evolve scalable solutions for automating security telemetry, detection pipelines, and control validation. Architect and Implement: Design robust systems and services focused on performance, reliability, and secure engineering practices. Lead Technical Strategy: Partner with engineering leadership to define and execute technical roadmaps that align with security objectives and business outcomes. Mentor and Collaborate: Provide deep technical mentorship to engineers across teams, and foster a collaborative environment grounded in security excellence. Advance DevSecOps Practices: Integrate with CI/CD pipelines, IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible), and modern observability platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus). Innovate with Open Source: Leverage and contribute to open-source security frameworks and tools. Enhance Security Posture: Engineer improvements in identity, endpoint, cloud, and network security domains through automation and software craftsmanship. Champion Engineering Standards: Drive software engineering best practices for code quality, performance, testing, and documentation. What You Bring: Programming Mastery: Fluency in at least one modern language (e.g., Go, Python) with a strong portfolio of software built at scale. Security Engineering Expertise: Broad hands-on experience in security domains including endpoint protection, cloud security, identity, and threat detection. Architecture & Systems Thinking: Strong background in system design, data pipelines, and infrastructure at scale. Cloud Proficiency: Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP; familiarity with native security tooling. Cross-Platform Comfort: Experience developing in multi-OS environments (Linux, macOS, Windows). Tooling Knowledge: Deep familiarity with SIEMs, EDRs, vulnerability scanners, and other security stack components. CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code: Experience integrating security in software pipelines and deploying with tools like GitHub Actions, Terraform, or Ansible. Open-Source Orientation: Knowledge and usage of open-source security tools and frameworks. Collaboration & Influence: Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. Team Enablement: Strong ability to communicate, collaborate, mentor, lead, and teach other engineers as needed to elevate team performance and knowledge sharing. Preferred Qualifications: 8+ years in security engineering, DevSecOps, or a related software development role 10+ years of professional software development experience 6+ years working in cloud-native environments 4+ years building with or integrating open-source tools Bachelor's degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent practical experience) Familiarity with machine learning or AI-based security solutions is a plus Experience working with audit and compliance teams is a bonus Annual Salary $115,000.00 - $230,000.00 The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations. At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. The GEICO Pledge: Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs. We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives. Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career and your potential in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels. Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose. As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers. Great Rewards: 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. The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.