Identity & Access Security Staff Engineer

GEICO; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to lead Identity and Access Management initiatives. You will collaborate with Distinguished Engineers to advance IAM strategies, ensure secure authentication, and drive a technical roadmap that accelerates product delivery across the organization.

Strong architecture, security controls, and leadership are essential. The role requires building scalable security systems, communicating with stakeholders, and solving complex IAM challenges in a

Qualifications

• 4+ years in technology or identity engineering.
• 3+ years in security, identity, architecture, and design.
• 2+ years with open-source frameworks desired.
• 3+ years with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to solve identity/security problems.
• Develop and execute IAM strategies across security services and systems.
• Own quality, usability, and performance of IAM solutions.
• Share best practices and improve cross-team processes.
• Take on-call and operational support.

Skills

Active Directory

Kerberos

LDAP

SAML

SCIM

OAuth

OIDC

Privileged access management

REST APIs

Python

Go

AWS

GCP

Azure

Linux

Auditors & controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Tools

IGA

PAM

ITDR

NHI

EPM

Job description

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer to lead Identity and Access Management initiatives. You will collaborate with Distinguished Engineers to advance IAM strategies, ensure secure authentication, and drive a technical roadmap that accelerates product delivery across the organization.

Strong architecture, security controls, and leadership are essential. The role requires building scalable security systems, communicating with stakeholders, and solving complex IAM challenges in a