Staff Engineer - Platform Security Engineering – Encryption and Tokenization

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

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Job summary

GEICO’s Platform Security Engineering group seeks a Staff Engineer specializing in Encryption and Tokenization. You will design and maintain secure data protection platforms, leading cryptographic initiatives and contributing to production-ready implementations.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help set the security direction for data at rest and in transit, while aligning with regulatory requirements and internal standards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing secure, scalable data-protection solutions for encryption/tokenization.
• Ability to design production-grade services, preferably in Go, with secure coding practices.
• Hands-on knowledge of cryptography libraries and standards.
• Experience with stateful systems like PostgreSQL and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with SRE practices, monitoring, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Lead encryption, tokenization, and key management design and implementation.
• Develop production-ready data protection services and set technical direction.
• Ensure availability, reliability, and auditable logging for crypto services.
• Collaborate with compliance and security teams to meet policies.
• Propose scalable designs for key management and data workflows.
• Apply modern cryptography trends to improve platform security.
• Mentor engineers on secure coding, design, and ops practices.
• Integrate encryption solutions with product goals and platforms.
• Improve performance and development experience in crypto ecosystems.

Skills

Cryptography

Tokenization

KMS

Go

PostgreSQL

SRE

CI/CD

OpenSSL

HSMs

Cryptography standards

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Google Tink

PKCS#11

JCE

OpenSSL

Job description

Why Join GEICO?

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Why Join GEICO?

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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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.

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.

GEICO’s Platform Security Engineering organization has an exciting opportunity for an accomplished Staff Engineer – Platform Security Engineering – Encryption and Tokenization. This individual will be crucial in the design, implementation, and maintenance of a robust Encryption and Tokenization platform, ensuring the protection of sensitive data throughout the organization.

Position Description

As a Staff Engineer, you will work closely with engineers and partner teams to design, build, and evolve secure data protection platforms, enhancing existing systems and applying your expertise in encryption and tokenization to solve complex technical problems. You will lead the design and delivery of key components within the platform security domain, contributing directly to production-ready implementations while helping shape technical direction, execution plans, and engineering practices that enable reliable product delivery and support new platform capabilities.

Position Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of encryption, tokenization, and key management solutions within a defined platform or product domain.
• Drive hands-on implementation of secure data protection capabilities, contributing directly to production-ready systems while setting technical direction for the team.
• Ensure the quality, reliability, and operational excellence of encryption and tokenization services, including high availability, disaster recovery, observability, and auditable logging.
• Partner closely with compliance, security, data governance, and application teams to ensure cryptographic solutions align with company policies and regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to architectural decisions by proposing scalable, resilient designs for key management systems and data protection workflows.
• Apply knowledge of modern cryptography trends and standards to improve platform security and inform technical decisions.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers on the team, helping raise the bar on secure coding, design quality, and operational practices.
• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to integrate encryption and tokenization solutions that support business and platform goals.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, cost efficiency, and developer experience within the encryption and key management ecosystem

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of cryptographic encryption, tokenization, and Key Management Systems (KMS).
• Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable solutions for data at rest encryption, using open-source cryptographic libraries and protocols (e.g., FPE, AEAD).
• Strong software engineering skills, with experience building production grade services (Go preferred).
• Working knowledge of key management technologies and libraries, such as Google Tink, PKCS#11, JCE, and OpenSSL.
• Experience operating stateful systems such as PostgreSQL, including replication and reliability considerations.
• Proven problem-solving skills with a security first mindset and proactive approach to risk mitigation.
• Experience applying site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response (Grafana, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, eBPF).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (e.g., Bazel, Terraform, Argo CD/Workflows/Rollouts).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to engineers and partner teams.
• Familiarity with hardware security modules (HSMs) and cryptography standards.

Experience

• 6+ yearsof experience in security or software engineering with a focus onencryption, tokenization, key management, or cryptography.
• 3+ yearsof experience contributing to system design, architecture, and security focused solutions.focused solutions.
• Experience working withopensource security or cryptography frameworks.source security or cryptography frameworks
• Experience building and operating systems incloud environments(AWS, GCP, Azure preferred).

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience with a focus on security and cryptography.

Annual Salary

$110,000.00 - $230,000.00

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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge

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Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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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.