Managing Engineer, Database & Platform

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $120k - $193.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Allstate

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1931

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🛡️ Insurance

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2014-01

Consulting • Logistics • Insurance

Allstate is an industry leader in providing insurance solutions, focusing on home, auto, device, and identity protection. With a commitment to customer well-being, Allstate aims to instill peace of mind and financial security for its customers. The company also emphasizes community impact and sustainability through various initiatives, showcasing their dedication to social responsibility and positive change.

📋 Description

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers, including hiring, performance reviews, career development, and coaching • Own the technical roadmap for database platform services including MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on premises, and MongoDB Atlas • Lead installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, patching, capacity planning, and production runbooks • Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns including sharding, replication, high availability, disaster recovery, backup retention, and failover • Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, and configuration management • Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation • Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance • Drive proactive incident prevention • Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, security, backups, and compliance • Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and product inception to translate feature requirements into scalable data solutions • Lead post-incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce mean time to detect and recover • Represent the database platform across cross-functional initiatives and influence long-term architecture decisions • Directly manage a team of 4–10 Database Administrators / Platform Engineers • Collaborate with hiring managers and senior leadership on resourcing and budget priorities

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles • 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity • Proven experience managing production deployments in on-premises and cloud environments • Understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies • Experience with automation and orchestration tools • Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools for schema migrations and platform changes • Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response • Excellent communication skills and ability to partner with vendors, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership • Preferred: experience with managed database services including MongoDB Atlas, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Azure, and ElastiCache • Preferred: familiarity with observability stacks and log aggregation • Preferred: knowledge of data-store security and compliance controls, including encryption, IAM, and auditing • Preferred: experience with large-scale data migrations and cross-region replication • Preferred: relevant certifications such as MongoDB Certified DBA or AWS/Azure/GCP certifications • Direct management responsibility for 4–10 Database Administrators / Platform Engineers • Responsible for staffing, performance management, career development, and setting team goals and KPIs • Must submit to a background investigation • Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position • Must have a dedicated, private workspace when working from home • Reliable internet required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload

🏖️ Benefits

• Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse • Monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs • Opportunity to challenge the status quo and shape the future of protection • Support for causes that mean the most to you • Dedicated, private home workspace requirement • Reliable internet requirement with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload