Key skills
JavaAIGenAILarge Language ModelsClaudeAgenticSnowflakeReactAngularAWSAzureGCPTerraformJenkinsGitHub ActionsIAMAPI GatewayActive DirectoryDatadogELK StackSplunkAppDynamicsApigeeGitHubCI/CDLeadershipMentoringTeam LeadershipCommunicationCollaborationCloud Security
About this role
Allstate Insurance Co. is a leading personal lines insurer in the United States. The Distinguished Engineer role is focused on pioneering solutions for complex enterprise problems and leveraging AI to enhance software delivery and security practices across the organization.
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
Requirements:
- Industry expert in software driven security practices: Data monitoring, tagging, marshaling, triage
- Industry expert in software driven security practices: Observability
- Industry expert in software driven security practices: CI/CD pipelines and gating enforcement
- Industry expert in software driven security practices: Identity and Access Management
- Industry expert in software driven security practices: Messaging security via API, Streaming, and other legacy modes of system communication
- Industry expert in software driven security practices: Multi cloud security via both container and virtual machine
- Industry expert in leveraging AI to leapfrog in software delivery: Large Language Models
- Industry expert in leveraging AI to leapfrog in software delivery: GenAI and Chatbot
- Industry expert in leveraging AI to leapfrog in software delivery: Model Context Protocol
- Industry expert in leveraging AI to leapfrog in software delivery: AI based Code Assistants
- Industry expert in leveraging AI to leapfrog in software delivery: Agentic Access
- Industry expert in leveraging AI to leapfrog in software delivery: A broad knowledge of third party products that could be valuable to Allstate
- Soft Skill Experience: Executive Communications
- Soft Skill Experience: Team Leadership
- Soft Skill Experience: Mentoring
- Soft Skill Experience: Cross Organizational Collaboration
- Soft Skill Experience: Public Speaking
- Soft Skill Experience: External Relationship and Vendor Management
- 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