Staff Cyber Software Engineer

The Staff Cyber Software Engineer will join GEICO's Cybersecurity Security Engineering & Analytics (SEA) team in Bethesda, MD on site. This hands-on position develops production-grade Python and Golang software to automate security workflows, scale systems, and advance security capabilities within an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software in Python (required) and Golang (preferred) to enable cybersecurity capabilities and drive security outcomes at enterprise scale.
• Identify manual, repetitive, or error-prone security workflows and replace them with reliable, well-tested automation, reducing toil and increasing speed and consistency of security operations.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code using proven object-oriented design patterns and SOLID principles, taking ownership of code quality, test coverage, and long-term health.
• Dive into complex technical and security challenges, from detection pipeline performance to data ingestion at scale, and deliver pragmatic solutions that perform in production.
• Be a reliable, high-output contributor in a fast-moving Agile squad: write code each sprint, participate in design discussions, engage in code reviews, and help the team advance with quality and speed.
• Build secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable services and pipelines, designed with distributed systems best practices and cloud-native infrastructure in mind.
• Integrate software with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible), and observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus).
• Leverage open source frameworks, security libraries, and tooling to accelerate delivery and avoid reinvention.
• Explore AI, ML development, large language models (LLMs), or generative AI to identify practical opportunities that speed security workflows or enhance detection capabilities.
• Share knowledge through code reviews and productive technical discussions to help teammates grow and improve overall team quality.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of professional software development experience.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Python Expertise (Required): Demonstrated enterprise-level Python development with strong object-oriented fundamentals. This is a non-negotiable requirement for consideration.

Technologies

• Python
• Golang
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• AWS
• Azure
• GCP

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards program tailored to you and your family’s well-being
• Market-competitive compensation
• 401K savings plan vested from day one with a 6% match
• Performance and recognition-based incentives
• Tuition assistance
• Mental healthcare support
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• Workplace flexibility through the GEICO Flex program, enabling up to four weeks of remote work per year

Annual Salary

USD 110,000 - 230,000 per year

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