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 Senior Staff Engineer to solve complex Network Security-related challenges. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine our Identity, Access Management, and Governance strategies.Position DescriptionOur Senior Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineers and Staff Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the speed of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has good technical expertise ensuring secure authentication and communication across the organization.Position ResponsibilitiesAs a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:<ul><li>Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems</li><li>Develop and execute technical Network Security strategies across all network access-related services and systems, while optimizing for performance and efficiency</li><li>Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions</li><li>Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams</li><li>Take on-call and operational support</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Extensive experience in security access services, products and protocols such as MFA and Kerberos, as well as Proxy and VPN clients.</li><li>Extensive experience in designing and optimizing complex firewall ACL configurations.</li><li>Experience communicating and presentation to senior and junior staff with the ability to influence stakeholders.</li><li>Experience in a multi-platform environment with Linux, Mac, Windows.</li><li>Experience in ZTNA technologies from companies such as Zscaler Private Access (ZPA)</li><li>Experience in implementing, administering and troubleshooting web access firewall and network proxy solutions.</li><li>Experience in implementing a remote access solution leveraging least privilege principles, providing access based upon a persons role in the organization.</li><li>​Experience with solving security control requirements with engineering approaches.</li><li>​Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.</li><li>Ability to design, perform experiments, and influence security detection and protection solutions.</li><li>Strong knowledge of industry-standard security tools, frameworks, and best practices including MITRE, CIS and NIST.</li><li>Fluency and specialization with at least one modern language such as Python or Go.</li><li>Experience in cryptographic protocols, digital certificates, and encryption standards such as X.509, Transport Layer Security (TLS), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).</li><li>Experience working with auditors and demonstrating security controls.</li></ul>Experience<ul><li>4+ years of professional experience in technology or identity engineering</li><li>3+ years of experience with security, identity, architecture, and design</li><li>2+ years of experience with open-source frameworks is desired</li><li>3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service</li></ul>Education<ul><li>Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience</li></ul>  Annual Salary$130,000.00 - $260,000.00The 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.  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.<ul><li>Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.</li><li>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.</li><li>Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.</li><li>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.</li></ul>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.