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
Allstate Corporation is a top Fortune 100 company leading the way as a personal lines insurer since 1931. Allstate serves millions of families across the United States and Canada through our primary products focused on home, auto, renters, life and business insurance.
Allstate Cybersecurity and Controls finds itself at the nascent stages of transforming our security practice to follow a simple pattern of identifying corporate risk, translating that into controls to contain the risk, and employing software to eliminate and measure that risk through products. At the same time, Allstate Technology Solutions is undergoing massive transformation to modernize, leverage AI, and homogenize to cutting edge technology standards and practices. As a result, Cybersecurity must stay ahead of how bleeding edge technology is created and employed at Allstate. The Distinguished Engineer role joins us as an industry leader in software enabled security with a strong influence in leveraging AI to amplify our speed to market and innovation.
Responsibilities:
The Distinguished Engineer will be responsible for pioneering and breaking down cross organization, complex, enterprise problems into deliverable components. During this breakdown, solutions will need to be constructed across multiple teams, and wherever possible, AI and third party solutions integrated for speed and quality. The Distinguished Engineer is responsible for growing engineers across organizational boundaries while staying on the cutting edge of technology. Distinguished engineers work across multiple efforts within a program to ensure continuity and prevent duplication of efforts. Distinguished engineers are the very top of the engineering maturity ladder handling the most critical and difficult tasks while ensuring the success of multiple teams within their sphere of influence.
Qualifications:
Industry expert in software driven security practices:
Data monitoring, tagging, marshaling, triage
Observability
CI/CD pipelines and gating enforcement
Identity and Access Management
Messaging security via API, Streaming, and other legacy modes of system communication
Multi cloud security via both container and virtual machine
Industry expert in leveraging AI to leapfrog in software delivery:
Large Language Models
GenAI and Chatbot
Model Context Protocol
AI based Code Assistants
Agentic Access
A broad knowledge of third party products that could be valuable to Allstate
Preferred Technology Experience:
Full stack engineer across Java, React/Angular, multi database technology
CI/CD pipeline automation including Jenkins and GitHub Actions
Infrastructure automation preferably Terraform
API Gateway experience across Cloud Based Gateways, preferably Apigee
Cloud experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Managing data within data lakes, preferably Snowflake
Observability Stack, leveraging data monitoring tools like Datadog, AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK stack
IAM tooling, Entra/Active Directory for RBAC, preferably more advanced ReBAC solutions like Google Zanzibar
Multiple LLMs especially Claude and GPT and integration into IDEs, especially VSCode and Cursor
Soft Skill Experience:
Executive Communications
Team Leadership
Mentoring
Cross Organizational Collaboration
Public Speaking
External Relationship and Vendor Management
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job does not have supervisory duties
As a Director, you won’t just deliver results – you drive our culture and shared purpose. At Allstate, we value in person connected experiences not just with your team but also other Allstaters. This may require travel within your local area or to one of our offices on a regular basis.
Skills
CI/CD, Executive Communications, Generative AI, Identity Access Management (IAM), Large Language Model (LLM) Fine-Tuning, Mentorship, Public Communication, Public Speaking, SRE Observability, Team Leadership, Vendor Relationship Management
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is 211,000.00 - 290,500.00 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’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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