Managing Engineer - Security

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

• Lead and manage an engineering team delivering security controls as software products, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development

• Set technical direction for the team and drivehighqualityexecution across design, implementation, deployment, and production support of security controls

• Serve as ahandsontechnical leader by contributing to architecture and design reviews, guiding technical decisions, performing code reviews, and supportingcriticalpathimplementation as needed

• Own operational outcomes for the team's products in production, including reliability, performance, and continuous improvement through feedback and learning loops

• Partner with Digital Product Managers, platform teams, and engineering stakeholders to effect alignment across roadmaps, priorities, and delivery plans spanning multiple product portfolios

• Build and sustain a strong engineering culture that emphasizes modern delivery practices (e.g.,testdrivendevelopment, paired programming, CI/CD), fast feedback, and continuous improvement

• Influence and innovate solutions to complex security challenges by translating security needs into scalable engineering approaches and reusable capabilities

• Facilitate effective agile execution (standups, planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives) whilemaintaininga strong focus on outcomes rather than ceremony

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including handson production coding in modern languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, Python) and ownership of production systems delivering measurable reliability, performance, or securityoutcomes

• 2+years of experienceleadingengineers throughhandsontechnical guidance, including architecture reviews, design decisions, and code reviews

• Proven background in building andoperatingscalable, distributed systems in cloud environments, includingmicroservicesbasedarchitectures

• Track recordof designing, evolving, and integrating APIs and backend services, with attention to reliability, scalability, and security considerations

• Practical application of modern engineering practices such astestdrivendevelopment, paired programming, CI/CD pipelines, and operational feedback loops including monitoring and observability

• Experienceoperatingwithin agile delivery environments, partnering closely with Digital Product Managers and engineering stakeholders to deliver outcomes

• Demonstrated depth in security engineering domains such as application security, cloud security,DevSecOps, or secure software development practices

• Practical experience designing or operating security controls embedded into CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, or shared platform services

• Proven ability to influence technical decisions beyond the immediate team, driving adoption of secure patterns, standards, or reusable capabilities across product areas

• Experience mentoring senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, with a focus on raising engineering quality andlongtermteam capability

• Strong organizational awareness and the ability to navigatecrossteamdependencies whilemaintainingdelivery momentum and technical integrity

• Exposure tocloudnativeand containerized environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker,AWSand/or Azure) and the security considerations thataccompanythem

• Familiarity with security metrics and operational signals (e.g., control adoption, reliability, incident reduction) used to evaluate engineering and security outcomes

• Strong mindset of balancing delivery velocity, security rigor, and developer experience, making thoughtful tradeoffsappropriate tocontext

• Demonstrated commitment to building solutions that balance robust security guarantees with an excellent developer experience, without compromising one for the other

• This role has supervisory responsibilities and serves as thefirst levelmanager for a team of engineers.

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The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact.

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