Allstate
Managing Engineer – (Software Development/Container Workloads)
Key aspects of the role:
- Drive sales growth by engaging with interested prospective customers- all while working remote
- No cold calling— Connect through inbound calls and proactive outbound calls with active insurance shoppers
- Enjoy competitive compensation with a base salary + uncapped performance-based incentives
- Sell reputable products from Allstate and our family of brands
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
The Managing Engineer (Software Development/Container Workloads) leads a team responsible for designing and building reference applications and implementation patterns that promote engineering best practices across the enterprise. These reference implementations demonstrate proven approaches for integrating with core platforms, services, and infrastructure, enabling engineering teams to build secure, scalable, and resilient applications.
This role is both a people leader and a hands-on technical leader, expected to operate as the most senior engineer on the team. The Managing Engineer drives architectural decisions, contributes directly to design and code, and ensures that all reference implementations reflect production-grade standards for performance, reliability, and efficiency.
The Managing Engineer applies expertise in software engineering, distributed systems, and platform integration to produce high-quality, reusable exemplars (e.g., service-to-cache integrations, messaging patterns, service-to-service communication). They ensure these patterns are not only functional but optimized for real-world enterprise scale and operational excellence.
In addition to team leadership responsibilities, this role has broad organizational impact, influencing engineering standards, guiding adoption of best practices, and partnering with platform, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure alignment.
The Allstate internal job title for this position is Software Engineer Manager.
Key Responsibilities
-
Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
-
Design and deliver reference architectures, sample applications, and reusable implementation patterns.
-
Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to address real-world engineering challenges.
-
Provide technical leadership for architecture, design reviews, and implementation decisions.
-
Promote engineering best practices related to scalability, resilience, security, and maintainability.
-
Build understanding of platform dependencies (e.g., caching, messaging, networking, identity, observability)
-
Drive adoption of reusable patterns and standards across engineering teams.
-
Participate in coding, prototyping, and troubleshooting activities as needed.
-
Manage staffing, prioritization, delivery planning, and team performance.
-
Influence engineering standards and platform adoption across the organization.
Essential Qualifications
-
7 years or more of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications and services.
-
2 years or more of technical leadership, team leadership, or people management experience. (Or Equivalent)
-
Strong proficiency in Java and experience building distributed applications and services.
-
Experience developing cloud-native applications in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
-
Experience with container technologies and Kubernetes-based deployments.
-
Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and service integration patterns.
-
Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, or asynchronous processing frameworks.
-
Understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
-
Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions.
-
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence engineering decisions.
Desired Qualifications
-
Experience designing enterprise reference architectures, reusable frameworks, or implementation patterns.
-
Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
-
Experience with Python, Node.js, JavaScript, or React.
-
Experience with observability solutions including logging, monitoring, tracing, and performance analysis.
-
Experience with caching technologies such as Redis or similar platforms.
-
Experience working on platform engineering, developer platform, or internal developer experience initiatives.
-
Experience with NoSQL technologies and modern data platform architectures.
-
Experience evaluating emerging technologies and establishing engineering best practices.
-
Experience supporting highly regulated or large-scale enterprise environments.
-
Previous experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams.
Experience
-
7 or more years of experience (Or Equivalent)
Supervisory Responsibilities
-
This job has supervisory duties
#LI-MF1
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Native, Cloud Platform, Distributed Applications, Distributed Systems, Engineering Practices, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java (Programming Language), Kubernetes, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft Azure, People Management, Performance Analysis, Performance Optimizations, Software Development, Team Leadership, Technical Leadership, Technical Solutions
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is 120,000.00 – 193,725.00 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.
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 “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO Know Your Rights” poster click “here”. 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 “here”. 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’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s 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.
Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
What We Do:
As an expert on our products and services, you can give customers personalized attention and innovative solutions to make their lives easier.
How We Support You:
Starting day one, you’ll have access to resources and incentives to keep you feeling challenged and excited about your careers.
Make An Impact:
As a member of our sales team, you’ll bring a sense of ease and support to customers looking for a better understanding of their protection options. Whether in the field or talking to customers over the phone, you’ll continue to build trust in who we are and what we do.
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
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
The Managing Engineer (Software Development/Container Workloads) leads a team responsible for designing and building reference applications and implementation patterns that promote engineering best practices across the enterprise. These reference implementations demonstrate proven approaches for integrating with core platforms, services, and infrastructure, enabling engineering teams to build secure, scalable, and resilient applications.
This role is both a people leader and a hands-on technical leader, expected to operate as the most senior engineer on the team. The Managing Engineer drives architectural decisions, contributes directly to design and code, and ensures that all reference implementations reflect production-grade standards for performance, reliability, and efficiency.
The Managing Engineer applies expertise in software engineering, distributed systems, and platform integration to produce high-quality, reusable exemplars (e.g., service-to-cache integrations, messaging patterns, service-to-service communication). They ensure these patterns are not only functional but optimized for real-world enterprise scale and operational excellence.
In addition to team leadership responsibilities, this role has broad organizational impact, influencing engineering standards, guiding adoption of best practices, and partnering with platform, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure alignment.
The Allstate internal job title for this position is Software Engineer Manager.
Key Responsibilities
-
Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
-
Design and deliver reference architectures, sample applications, and reusable implementation patterns.
-
Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to address real-world engineering challenges.
-
Provide technical leadership for architecture, design reviews, and implementation decisions.
-
Promote engineering best practices related to scalability, resilience, security, and maintainability.
-
Build understanding of platform dependencies (e.g., caching, messaging, networking, identity, observability)
-
Drive adoption of reusable patterns and standards across engineering teams.
-
Participate in coding, prototyping, and troubleshooting activities as needed.
-
Manage staffing, prioritization, delivery planning, and team performance.
-
Influence engineering standards and platform adoption across the organization.
Essential Qualifications
-
7 years or more of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications and services.
-
2 years or more of technical leadership, team leadership, or people management experience. (Or Equivalent)
-
Strong proficiency in Java and experience building distributed applications and services.
-
Experience developing cloud-native applications in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
-
Experience with container technologies and Kubernetes-based deployments.
-
Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and service integration patterns.
-
Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, or asynchronous processing frameworks.
-
Understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
-
Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions.
-
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence engineering decisions.
Desired Qualifications
-
Experience designing enterprise reference architectures, reusable frameworks, or implementation patterns.
-
Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
-
Experience with Python, Node.js, JavaScript, or React.
-
Experience with observability solutions including logging, monitoring, tracing, and performance analysis.
-
Experience with caching technologies such as Redis or similar platforms.
-
Experience working on platform engineering, developer platform, or internal developer experience initiatives.
-
Experience with NoSQL technologies and modern data platform architectures.
-
Experience evaluating emerging technologies and establishing engineering best practices.
-
Experience supporting highly regulated or large-scale enterprise environments.
-
Previous experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams.
Experience
-
7 or more years of experience (Or Equivalent)
Supervisory Responsibilities
-
This job has supervisory duties
#LI-MF1
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Native, Cloud Platform, Distributed Applications, Distributed Systems, Engineering Practices, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java (Programming Language), Kubernetes, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft Azure, People Management, Performance Analysis, Performance Optimizations, Software Development, Team Leadership, Technical Leadership, Technical Solutions
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is 120,000.00 – 193,725.00 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.
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 “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO Know Your Rights” poster click “here”. 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 “here”. 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’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s 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.
Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
What We Do:
Your ability to quickly and calmly make smart decisions can make a huge difference in how confident customers feel throughout the claims process. And as you support our customers, we’re there to support you.
How We Support You:
We empower your success starting day one. You’ll have access to everything you need to grow professionally while helping our customers get their lives back on track.
Make An Impact:
Helping customers with their claims is about learning their stories, not just processing their paperwork. You can take pride in the fact that you’re providing invaluable guidance and helping to build continued trust in our company.
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
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
The Managing Engineer (Software Development/Container Workloads) leads a team responsible for designing and building reference applications and implementation patterns that promote engineering best practices across the enterprise. These reference implementations demonstrate proven approaches for integrating with core platforms, services, and infrastructure, enabling engineering teams to build secure, scalable, and resilient applications.
This role is both a people leader and a hands-on technical leader, expected to operate as the most senior engineer on the team. The Managing Engineer drives architectural decisions, contributes directly to design and code, and ensures that all reference implementations reflect production-grade standards for performance, reliability, and efficiency.
The Managing Engineer applies expertise in software engineering, distributed systems, and platform integration to produce high-quality, reusable exemplars (e.g., service-to-cache integrations, messaging patterns, service-to-service communication). They ensure these patterns are not only functional but optimized for real-world enterprise scale and operational excellence.
In addition to team leadership responsibilities, this role has broad organizational impact, influencing engineering standards, guiding adoption of best practices, and partnering with platform, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure alignment.
The Allstate internal job title for this position is Software Engineer Manager.
Key Responsibilities
-
Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
-
Design and deliver reference architectures, sample applications, and reusable implementation patterns.
-
Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to address real-world engineering challenges.
-
Provide technical leadership for architecture, design reviews, and implementation decisions.
-
Promote engineering best practices related to scalability, resilience, security, and maintainability.
-
Build understanding of platform dependencies (e.g., caching, messaging, networking, identity, observability)
-
Drive adoption of reusable patterns and standards across engineering teams.
-
Participate in coding, prototyping, and troubleshooting activities as needed.
-
Manage staffing, prioritization, delivery planning, and team performance.
-
Influence engineering standards and platform adoption across the organization.
Essential Qualifications
-
7 years or more of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications and services.
-
2 years or more of technical leadership, team leadership, or people management experience. (Or Equivalent)
-
Strong proficiency in Java and experience building distributed applications and services.
-
Experience developing cloud-native applications in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
-
Experience with container technologies and Kubernetes-based deployments.
-
Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and service integration patterns.
-
Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, or asynchronous processing frameworks.
-
Understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
-
Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions.
-
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence engineering decisions.
Desired Qualifications
-
Experience designing enterprise reference architectures, reusable frameworks, or implementation patterns.
-
Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
-
Experience with Python, Node.js, JavaScript, or React.
-
Experience with observability solutions including logging, monitoring, tracing, and performance analysis.
-
Experience with caching technologies such as Redis or similar platforms.
-
Experience working on platform engineering, developer platform, or internal developer experience initiatives.
-
Experience with NoSQL technologies and modern data platform architectures.
-
Experience evaluating emerging technologies and establishing engineering best practices.
-
Experience supporting highly regulated or large-scale enterprise environments.
-
Previous experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams.
Experience
-
7 or more years of experience (Or Equivalent)
Supervisory Responsibilities
-
This job has supervisory duties
#LI-MF1
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Native, Cloud Platform, Distributed Applications, Distributed Systems, Engineering Practices, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Java (Programming Language), Kubernetes, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft Azure, People Management, Performance Analysis, Performance Optimizations, Software Development, Team Leadership, Technical Leadership, Technical Solutions
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is 120,000.00 – 193,725.00 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.
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 “here” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “here” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
To view the “EEO Know Your Rights” poster click “here”. 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 “here”. 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’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s 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.
Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Benefits
Experience the benefits that make Allstate a great place to work.
*Benefits vary based on position.

- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- HSAs and FSAs
- Wellbeing programs
- Free therapy sessions

- 401(k) plan
- Pension plan
- Free financial counseling

- Paid time off
- Work flexibility

- Talent shares
- Tuition reimbursement
- Learning opportunities
For a full description of Allstate’s benefits visit our benefits page
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