Sr. Staff Engineer - Identity Lifecycle Engineering (REMOTE)

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 Engineer with a passion for building high performance, minimal 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.

Position description

Our Senior Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff, working across the organization to provide friction-less experience for our customers and maintain the highest standards of compliance, protection and availability. You will be part of a team that thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge of the Identity Lifecycle, Access Management principles and solutions that ensure secure authorization to GEICO’s data assets.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:

• Lead architecture and design efforts for IGA on our access governance platform.
• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams.
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest IGA problems.
• Own the complete project lifecycle for application integrations of both on-premises and SaaS applications with our IGA platform.
• Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of our Identity Lifecycle engineering solutions.
• Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.
• Mentor junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential.
• Consistently share industry best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Qualifications

• Engineering experience with an industry leading IGA solution such as Saviynt, SailPoint, and Okta.
• Experience in delivering Access Controls requirements for regulatory compliance such as SOX, PCI, and NYDFS.
• Experience in access control principles including ABAC, RBAC, UARs, JIT, PAM, and Least Privilege access mechanisms.
• Experience in on-premises and SaaS application integrations with an Identity Governance solution, leveraging SCIM, API, and connector frameworks.
• Fluency and specialization with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go, or Rust.
• Experience with designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise level Identity Access Management solutions that integrate with Azure AD, Active Directory, and AWS.
• Strong knowledge of modern authentication mechanisms such as MFA, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML.
• Ability to scope, design, and build scalable solutions for Identity Governance Administration.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security risks and vulnerabilities.
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complete technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Experience

• 8+ years of professional software development experience within C.
• 5+ years of experience with architecture and design.
• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.
• 1+ years of people management experience.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience. 

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Annual Salary

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.

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.

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.