Allstate
Software Engineer - Security
Posted on Jan 7 Remote, IL 35 views
At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life鈥檚 uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers鈥 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.聽
Job Description
**For this opportunity, the business is flexible to hire at Sr Consultant II, Lead Consultant, and Expert level depending on qualifications & interview evaluation.**
Allstate Information Security (AIS) is advancing its embedded security product strategy by launching three new engineering teams dedicated to building security controls seamlessly integrated into Allstate鈥檚 technology ecosystem. This is an opportunity for an engineer to build tools for other product engineers to improve the security and developer experience of Allstate's SDLC and platforms.
The Software Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. This individual will apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. Software Engineers take pride in building solutions without compromise鈥攄emonstrating an unwavering commitment to both developer friendliness and security.
The Security Engineering group this position would be a part of is tasked with developing security controls as digital products that enhance or contribute to the enhancement of security within Allstate.
Key Responsibilities
Essential Skills
Additional Criteria for Lead & Expert Levels:
Desirable Skills
Supervisory Responsibilities
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Skills
Agile Methodology, CI/CD, Java, JavaScript, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft .NET, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Test Driven Development (TDD)
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role ranges from $90,700 - 199,910 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
Joining our team isn鈥檛 just a job 鈥 it鈥檚 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 鈥 a winning team making a meaningful impact.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click 鈥溾 for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click 鈥溾 for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the 鈥淓EO Know Your Rights鈥 poster click 鈥溾. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
To view the FMLA poster, click 鈥溾. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company鈥檚 policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee鈥檚 ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
Job Description
**For this opportunity, the business is flexible to hire at Sr Consultant II, Lead Consultant, and Expert level depending on qualifications & interview evaluation.**
Allstate Information Security (AIS) is advancing its embedded security product strategy by launching three new engineering teams dedicated to building security controls seamlessly integrated into Allstate鈥檚 technology ecosystem. This is an opportunity for an engineer to build tools for other product engineers to improve the security and developer experience of Allstate's SDLC and platforms.
The Software Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. This individual will apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. Software Engineers take pride in building solutions without compromise鈥攄emonstrating an unwavering commitment to both developer friendliness and security.
The Security Engineering group this position would be a part of is tasked with developing security controls as digital products that enhance or contribute to the enhancement of security within Allstate.
Key Responsibilities
Participate in the ideation of security controls that challenge the status quo and push the organization to a higher level of embedded security
Demonstrate technical skills and aptitude needed to meet/exceed delivery velocity expectations as a full stack developer聽聽
Actively learn different technologies as needed for delivery of stories聽聽
Deliver on all phases of development work from聽initial聽kick-off, technical setup, application development, and support聽
Embrace approach of making collaborative, fast, local decisions; then course correct as/if needed (test/learn/iterate)聽聽
Participate in regular agile meetings (e.g., site standup, product team standup, iteration planning meeting, retrospective, lunch & learns)聽
Utilize Paired programming聽聽
Leverage Test-Driven Development聽聽
Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous聽deployment聽pipelines and practices
Participate in high-level and low-level聽component聽and system designs聽
Partner in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other聽peers聽and key stakeholders
Essential Skills
Minimum of 3 years鈥 experience delivering production grade applications聽using (Java, Python, .NET, JavaScript聽etc.)聽with measurable impact (e.g., improved performance, reduced incidents)
Familiarity with the tools聽such聽as,聽Intellij-IDE or equivalent, Git, and REST APIs
Experience building and聽maintaining聽CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time and increased release frequency without compromising quality
Knowledge of Agile methodologies (especially Agile XP), including paired programming and test-driven development
Hands on experience architecting and deploying distributed systems in the cloud聽including聽MicroServices聽architectures, achieving scalability and uptime targets
Additional Criteria for Lead & Expert Levels:
Minimum of 1 year of experience coaching or mentoring engineers with evidence of improving team capability聽
Proven ability to lead technical design and architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems, resulting in measurable improvements in scalability, security, or performance
Track聽record of聽driving cross-team collaboration to deliver integrated solutions, achieving alignment across multiple product portfolios
Desirable Skills
Familiarity with OWASP top 10 and MITRE attack framework聽
Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
Experience with behavioral driven development聽
Knowledge of LLMs and Machine Learning聽
Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor) and ability to聽leverage聽them for productivity gains
Supervisory Responsibilities
There are no supervisory responsibilities for this role聽聽
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Skills
Agile Methodology, CI/CD, Java, JavaScript, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft .NET, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Test Driven Development (TDD)
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role ranges from $90,700 - 199,910 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
Joining our team isn鈥檛 just a job 鈥 it鈥檚 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 鈥 a winning team making a meaningful impact.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
For jobs in San Francisco, please click 鈥溾 for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click 鈥溾 for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the 鈥淓EO Know Your Rights鈥 poster click 鈥溾. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
To view the FMLA poster, click 鈥溾. This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint.
It is the Company鈥檚 policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee鈥檚 ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.
