Software Engineer - Security

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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's 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-demonstrating 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
• Actively learn different technologies as needed for delivery of stories
• Deliver on all phases of development work from initial kick-off, technical setup, application development, and support
• Embrace approach of making collaborative, fast, local decisions; then course correct as/if needed (test/learn/iterate)
• Participate in regular agile meetings (e.g., site standup, product team standup, iteration planning meeting, retrospective, lunch & learns)
• Utilize Paired programming
• Leverage Test-Driven Development
• Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Participate in high-level and low-level component and system designs
• Partner in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders

Essential Skills

• Minimum of 3 years' experience delivering production grade applications using (Java, Python, .NET, JavaScript etc.) with measurable impact (e.g., improved performance, reduced incidents)
• Familiarity with the tools such as, Intellij-IDE or equivalent, Git, and REST APIs
• Experience building and maintaining 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 including MicroServices 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
• Proven ability to lead technical design and architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems, resulting in measurable improvements in scalability, security, or performance
• Track record of 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
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
• Experience with behavioral driven development
• Knowledge of LLMs and Machine Learning
• Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor) and ability to leverage them for productivity gains

Supervisory Responsibilities

• There are no supervisory responsibilities for this role

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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'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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