Staff Software Engineer – IaaS (Cryptography and Data Protection) (REMOTE)

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineers, Sr. Staff Engineer's, and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in software engineering, cryptography, and open-source IaaS platform domain

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the IaaS Engineering domain, while optimizing for performance and efficiency

• Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

• Take on-call and operation support

Qualifications

• Strong foundations in software engineering

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes

• Professional experience in software development at least one modern programming language, including Go, Python, Java, or Rust

• Hands-on experience with public and/or private cloud environments (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)

• Experience and technical knowledge of security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols and cryptography

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube and knowledge in Terraform will be big plus

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement resilient, scalable, and efficient solutions

• Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks

• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus

• One of more of the following certifications are highly desired:

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Experience

• 6+ years of professional IaaS experience

• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Benefits:
As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:
· Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
· Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
· 401(k) Plan
· Tuition Reimbursement
· Paid Training and Licensures
*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.
**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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