Lead Software Engineer
State Farm1 day ago
Bloomington, IL, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$120k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, troubleshoot, and improve resilient, highly available production systems with engineering teams.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and consulting across product teams to diagnose complex problems and implement sustainable solutions.
- Apply SRE principles to improve availability, performance, observability, incident readiness, and operational maturity.
- Use observability and distributed tracing to identify failure patterns, troubleshoot dependencies, measure customer impact, and improve reliability.
- Coach teams on automated testing, deployment readiness, monitoring, alerting, production support, and engineering best practices.
- Conduct incident analysis and post-incident reviews, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions.
- Build tooling, automation, dashboards, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities to identify risks and improve engineering effectiveness.
- Support performance testing, resiliency exercises, GameDays, chaos testing, and other failure-validation practices.
- Collaborate with engineers, architects, SRE and platform teams, and technology leaders while mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction.
Requirements
- Significant hands-on software engineering experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, troubleshooting, and supporting production applications using Java, Python, or similar languages.
- Experience designing and operating resilient distributed systems, including fault tolerance, dependency failure, scalability, recovery, and graceful degradation patterns.
- Hands-on experience developing and operating cloud-native applications and services on AWS.
- Experience with containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenShift; Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS experience is highly preferred.
- Strong knowledge of SRE principles and demonstrated experience applying resiliency, observability, operational readiness, and incident-management practices.
- Experience with observability and distributed tracing, including telemetry-based troubleshooting, monitoring, and alerting; Dynatrace or comparable platforms are preferred.
- Experience with modern software delivery, automated testing, Git-based workflows, deployment automation, security and vulnerability management, and infrastructure as code using OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar technologies.
- Experience conducting root-cause analysis and converting production incident findings into sustainable engineering improvements.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering capabilities for development, testing, analysis, troubleshooting, automation, or operations.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, communication, mentoring, consulting, risk assessment, and influence without direct authority.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with work-from-home and office time; candidates must live within 180 miles of a listed hub in Bloomington, IL, Richardson, TX, Atlanta, GA, or Tempe, AZ.
- Annual raises, incentive opportunities, healthcare plans, and coverage including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, preventative care, and mental health services.
- Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and mentoring opportunities.
- Fertility, IVF, adoption assistance, college coaching, discounts, financial workshops, financial coaching, and credit union access.
- Paid time off, parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
- Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and Employee Assistance Fund.
- Retirement planning resources and a 401(k) plan with company contributions.
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.