Staff Engineer - PKI at GEICO

You are an experienced engineer with a strong background in software development and a specialization in cryptography. You possess deep knowledge of public key

Work type: hybrid

Location: Bethesda, MD | Palo Alto, CA | Seattle, WA

Type: Full-time

Summary

You are an experienced engineer with a strong background in software development and a specialization in cryptography. You possess deep knowledge of public key infrastructure and modern cloud architecture to help drive technical strategy. **Key highlights** GEICO is hiring this hybrid role for their Bethesda, Palo Alto, or Seattle offices. You will lead the technical roadmap for their IaaS domain while ensuring the security and scalability of mission-critical systems. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Possess deep expertise in Microsoft ADCS, certificate governance, and PKI operations. - Have professional coding experience in languages like Go, Python, Java, or Rust. - Maintain hands-on proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms like AWS or Azure. - Understand CI/CD pipeline integration and security protocols for resilient system design.

Job Description

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.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

• Strong knowledge of PKI and Certificate Management


• Strong knowledge of Microsoft ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services) including


• Certificate Template management


• Enrollment and Issuance Criteria


• Certificate Authority Governance and Operations

• 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)

• 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

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

Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $230,000.00The 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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified 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.

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