Staff Engineer - Product Security

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 Staff Engineer to provide enterprise support for application security in our hybrid, multi-cloud environments. The Product Security Tools Staff Engineer proactively leads and supports Product Security activities that guide the design, development and security of code and code repositories for cloud-hosted and open-source applications. Current tools include CI/CD integrations, SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, and automated threat modeling.

Position Description:

Our Product Security tooling team is focused on enabling our engineering teams to build and develop code securely, supporting our code and application scanning tools (vendor & open source). We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer who can help scale out, automate, and support our Tooling applications, specifically our build-time container scanning tooling. The ideal candidate is experienced in understanding and challenging our Security & Engineering organizations on how and where to implement secure code guardrails and security scanning. We are aiming to expand out our coverage of our security scanning tools more broadly within the enterprise, in a more integrated fashion while also navigating quickly-changing and legacy environments across our tech stack.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Staff Engineer, you will

• Own managing our vendor/open source tooling, integrating functionality across multiple technology platforms such as GitHub Enteprise and Azure DevOps

• Build out applications and automations to reach our team goals, better integrate across the Tech platforms, and focus on prioritizing the most critical vulns/findings engineering teams should fix

• Develop and implement security policies and procedures

• Collaborate with development teams to ensure secure coding practices are followed

• Stay up to date with the latest security threats and trends

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers

• Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise 

• Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions 

Qualifications:

• CI/CD pipeline experience, specifically ADO pipelines & GitHub Actions are required for this role

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or Golang

• Experience with security tools such as vulnerability scanners or static code scanning tools

• Knowledge of web application security and how to support engineers with managing their security vulnerabilities as a result of the Product Security scanning tools

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Knowledge of various managed and database technologies like such as Cosmos, SQL, MySQL, MongoDB

• Understanding and knowledge of application development life cycle methodologies such as waterfall, rapid prototyping, incremental, and DevOps

• Familiar with navigating implementing and supporting vendor tools deployed in an enterprise environment

• Understanding and applied use of OWASP Top 10, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS, etc.

Experience:

• 6+ years of experience in application security, or in a related domain

• 6+ years experience with programming languages, including understanding and interacting with CI/CD pipelines for application deployments

Education:

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

 

Annual Salary

$110,000.00 - $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 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.