Principal Engineer - Cyber Engineer

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, AWS, Azure, Big Data Technology, C Programming, C# Programming, C++, CircleCI, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Design, Docker, Elasticsearch, ETL frameworks, Git, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Grafana, Infrastructure as code, Java Programming, JavaScript, Jenkins, Kubernetes-K8s, Machine learning techniques, Perl Programming, PHP Programming, PostgreSQL, Python Programming, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Terraform

Job Description

GEICO is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer with a passion for building high performance, enterprise security capabilities and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation and security engineering domain modernization as we redefine secure experiences for our customers.

Our Principal Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to solve critical problems. You will lead 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 the Open-Source Database platform domain. 

Position Responsibilities:

As a Principal Engineer, you will:

• Provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest security and automation problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Security Engineering domain
• Accountable for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions
• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale, performance, and tuning,
• Fluent at least two object-oriented programming languages among Java, Go, python, C++, etc.
• Good knowledge for two of the following languages: C, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Javascript,shell script, etc.
• Understand open-source security products like Security Onion, Snort, Osquery, IDS/IPS, OpenVAS, Defect Dojo, Zabbbix, Grafana, CloudSploit, Suricata etc.
• 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.
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning.

Qualifications:

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication).
• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies 
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Experience:

• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 4+ years of experience in security engineering and technology
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience in open source frameworks
• 1+ years of people management experience

Benefits:

At GEICO, we make sure you have the support and resources to leverage and develop your skills, secure your financial future, and take care of your health and well-being. GEICO continually seeks to provide a workplace where everyone can be their authentic self. To help achieve this goal, we support associate-led Employee Resource Groups that foster a true sense of community. Through GEICO’s competitive benefits offerings and various training and development opportunities, we have you covered with our Total Rewards Program that includes:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Assistance including Direct Billing and Reimbursement payment plan options
• Paid Training, Licensures and Certificates

Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service. 

Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire coverage to take effect.

GEICO is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to cultivating an environment where equal employment opportunities are available to 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 celebrates diversity and believes it is critical to our success. As such, we are committed to recruit, develop and retain the most talented individuals to join our team.

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Annual Salary

$100,000.00 - $236,500.00

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.