1 month ago
Bethesda, MD, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$110k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of encryption, tokenization, and key management solutions.
- Implement secure data protection capabilities and contribute directly to production-ready systems.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, observability, reliability, and auditable logging for encryption and tokenization services.
- Partner with compliance, security, data governance, application, product, and engineering teams.
- Propose scalable and resilient architectures for key management systems and data protection workflows.
- Apply modern cryptography trends and standards to technical decisions.
- Mentor engineers on secure coding, design quality, and operational practices.
- Improve performance, cost efficiency, and developer experience across the encryption and key management ecosystem.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of security or software engineering experience focused on encryption, tokenization, key management, or cryptography.
- At least 3 years contributing to system design, architecture, and security-focused solutions.
- Strong understanding of cryptographic encryption, tokenization, and key management systems.
- Experience designing secure, scalable data-at-rest encryption solutions using open-source cryptographic libraries and protocols such as FPE and AEAD.
- Strong software engineering experience building production-grade services, with Go preferred.
- Experience with Google Tink, PKCS#11, JCE, OpenSSL, and hardware security modules.
- Experience operating stateful systems such as PostgreSQL, including replication and reliability considerations.
- Experience applying SRE practices including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
- Experience building and operating systems in cloud environments, with AWS, GCP, or Azure preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent work experience focused on security and cryptography.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, risk mitigation, and security-first skills.
Benefits
- GEICO offers personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
- The company provides competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support employee well-being and future needs.
- GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Tech Stack
About GEICO
GEICO sells auto and other personal lines insurance to U.S. consumers through a primarily direct-to-consumer model via web, mobile, and phone, with some local agents. Its products include car, motorcycle, RV, boat, homeowners, renters, condo, umbrella, and commercial auto coverage, plus roadside assistance. Founded in 1936 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, GEICO is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and is among the largest auto insurers in the United States.