Staff Engineer - Application Security

$90,000 - $230,000/Yr

Geico - Chevy Chase, MD

Full-time - Senior

Chevy Chase, MD

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About the position

The Staff Engineer - Application Security at GEICO is a senior-level role focused on providing enterprise support for application security within hybrid, multi-cloud environments. This position involves leading and supporting application security activities, guiding the design and development of secure code, and integrating security into the product lifecycle. The Staff Engineer will work closely with development and product teams to ensure secure application practices and provide expert guidance on security requirements and assessments.

Responsibilities

• Work independently with developers, system/network engineers, product owners, and other engineers to ensure secure design, development, and implementation of cloud-based applications.
• Define and document secure architecture patterns and anti-patterns.
• Perform security architecture design reviews of products including web applications, services, and mobile applications.
• Define security best practices and standards and partner with Product Development teams to implement them.
• Provide remediation guidance and recommendations to developers and engineers.
• Serve as a technical advisor and consultant to colleagues and/or GEICO leadership on the implementation of the Cybersecurity application security policy and standards.
• Provide technical thought leadership for integration decisions, analyzing design constraints and trade-offs in system and security design.
• Work with Product Development teams to help prioritize and validate urgency of mitigation of identified product vulnerabilities and security feature enhancement requests.
• Interface with the Product and Vulnerability Management teams to track security feature enhancement requests.

Requirements

• 6+ years planning and designing application security, cloud security, systems security, or platform security.
• 5+ years of experience in at least two security solution design and development disciplines, including technical or security infrastructure architecture, cloud security, network security management, secure application development or secure cloud development.
• 4+ years of experience in application and open-source security.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.
• Direct experience working with development teams to define, develop and document secure solutions.
• Experience breaking down complex systems and applications to find flaws with analysis and threat modeling.
• Strong familiarity with common vulnerabilities and attack vectors.
• Knowledge of web service technologies, load balancer services, and RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of ubiquitous encryption technologies and common authentication protocols.
• Solid understanding of secure network, system, and service design in cloud and conventional environments.
• Understanding and applied use of OWASP Top 10, NIST SP800 Series, NIST CSF, FIPS 140-2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS.
• Knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like integration, network, and security.
• Advanced understanding and knowledge of application development life cycle methodologies.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse security technologies, platforms, and processing environments.
• Strong command of strategic and emerging security/cloud technology trends.
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies.
• Experience collaborating closely with senior executives on strategic initiatives.
• A background integrating security testing into the SDLC.
• Experience providing security training to developers.
• Ability to find security defects within programming languages such as Java, Python, Object C.
• Demonstrated experience using DAST and SAST tools and services.

Nice-to-haves

• One or more of the following Cybersecurity certifications: Security+, CISSP, CISM.

Benefits

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures