Geico

Staff Engineer - PKI

Geico$115K — $230K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in IaaS environments
  • Extensive knowledge of PKI and Certificate Management
  • Proficiency in Microsoft ADCS including management and governance
  • Experience in system design, data pipelines, and complex architectures
  • Hands-on experience in modern programming languages such as Go or Python
  • Familiarity with cloud environments like AWS and Azure
  • Strong understanding of security protocols and cryptography

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple areas
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address complex challenges
  • Develop and execute a strategic software development plan for IaaS
  • Ensure high quality, usability, and performance of engineering solutions
  • Mentor and coach engineering staff to enhance technical skills
  • Share best practices and streamline processes across teams
  • Conduct cost analysis and resource planning for business operations

Benefits

  • Opportunity for remote work flexibility
  • Access to continuous learning resources and professional development
  • Supportive environment fostering psychological safety and teamwork
  • Participation in technology-driven transformation initiatives
  • Certifications and training support for career advancement
Full Job Description
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 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)

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

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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.


 

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.


 

About Geico

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is an American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The insurance agency sells policies through local agents, called GEICO Field Representatives, and over the phone directly to the consumer, and through their website.
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Size
40,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1936

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