Software Engineer – Enterprise Claims Build Automation & Release Engineering (Gradle, Maven)
State Farm5 hours ago
Base Salary
$96k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain GitLab CI pipelines for compiling, packaging, and validating a large-scale Java application.
- Migrate legacy Jenkins jobs to reusable, modular GitLab CI pipelines using shared templates and source libraries.
- Build pipeline-triggered developer utilities for tagging, merge validation, code search, build comparison, version reporting, and code metrics.
- Develop dashboards showing build health, queue times, and deployment status.
- Manage shared build infrastructure including Docker images, AWS runners, JFrog Artifactory integration, credentials, deployment orchestration, and runner configuration.
- Automate branch and tag management, version management, configuration-only builds, and externalized configuration.
- Evaluate and implement Gradle as a replacement for Ant and Maven and prepare for a future GitLab-to-GitHub migration.
Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals and experience delivering and supporting production build and release systems at scale.
- Hands-on experience developing CI/CD pipelines, pipeline definitions, multi-stage workflows, shared runners, and pipeline-as-code patterns.
- Proficiency in Bash and experience writing scripts that interact with Git, REST APIs, and multi-step build processes.
- Solid Git workflow experience, including branching strategies, tagging, multi-stream release management, and merge validation.
- Unix/Linux command-line fluency and experience creating Docker container images for CI environments.
- Experience with Gradle and migrating large Java projects from Ant or Maven is desired.
- Advanced GitLab CI experience with parent-child pipelines, shared templates, dynamic variables, custom runners, and container registries is desired.
- Experience with JFrog Artifactory or similar artifact repositories, Python, GitHub Actions, AWS, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Snyk is desired.
- Strong ownership, collaboration, and communication skills, including comfort working across teams and navigating ambiguity.
- Must be eligible to work lawfully in the United States immediately; State Farm will not sponsor U.S. work authorization.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with work from home and office time; candidates must live within 180 miles of a hub in Bloomington, Illinois; Dunwoody, Georgia; Richardson, Texas; or Tempe, Arizona.
- Potential annual incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary.
- Annual raises, bonus eligibility, health and wellbeing programs, medical, vision, dental, telemedicine, and mental health benefits.
- Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
- Fertility, IVF, adoption assistance, college coaching, financial workshops, financial coaching, and credit union access.
- Time-off policies including up to 20 days initially, parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
- Matching gifts, community grants, and an employee assistance fund.
- 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of salary and access to financial advisors.
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About State Farm
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