Lead Software Engineer (Platform Engineering)
State Farm1 day ago
Bloomington, IL, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$120k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build Kubernetes-native automation in Go using custom controllers and Crossplane compositions.
- Manage GitHub organizational resources, repositories, teams, rulesets, enterprise settings, GitHub Apps, and GitHub Hosted Actions Compute.
- Build tooling to migrate repositories, access, and settings from on-premises GitLab to GitHub Enterprise Cloud.
- Develop tooling, guides, and automation to help engineering teams adopt the new internal developer platform.
- Implement versioned, reconciled, and auditable GitOps workflows.
- Own platform systems end to end, contribute to architecture decisions, collaborate with teammates, and improve developer experience.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience building real systems in Go, such as a CLI, Kubernetes controller/operator, or API service.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience with the Kubernetes Resource Model, CRDs, controllers, reconciliation loops, RBAC, and admission webhooks.
- Hands-on Crossplane experience with Compositions, XRDs, Managed Resources, and Providers, or strong Kubernetes operator experience with the ability to learn Crossplane.
- Ability to communicate effectively, collaborate, take ownership, and support platform users.
Benefits
- Potential starting base salary of $120,000-$150,000 plus potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary.
- Health, vision, dental, telemedicine, mental health, and wellbeing benefits, with State Farm paying most of the healthcare premium.
- Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
- Fertility, IVF, adoption assistance, college coaching, discounts, financial workshops, and financial coaching.
- Paid time off, up to 20 days initially earned annually, parental leave, paid holidays, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
- Matching Gift, Good Neighbor Grant, and Employee Assistance programs.
- 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of salary and access to financial advisors.
- Hybrid work arrangement at designated State Farm locations, with approximately 40% in-office time each month beginning in late 2027.
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About State Farm
State Farm is a U.S. mutual insurance group that sells auto, home, renters, life, health, and small-business coverage, plus select financial services. It markets policies primarily through a large network of local agents and earns revenue from premiums and investing customer reserves. Founded in 1922 and headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, it is among the largest personal lines insurers in the United States.