Availability Engineering Software Engineer
State Farm2 months ago
Bloomington, IL, USA +3 moreEntry Level
Base Salary
$85k - $125k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain backend, frontend, and full-stack features for availability assurance applications.
- Modernize and support containerized workloads on cloud-native platforms such as ROSA and OpenShift.
- Support applications throughout their lifecycle, including requirements, implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Improve application performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
- Troubleshoot production issues, participate in technical triage and bridge activities, investigate outages, identify root causes, and recommend recovery actions.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, quality, support, and infrastructure teams on resilient solutions.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, technical planning, code reviews, testing, and operational excellence initiatives.
Requirements
- Experience developing and supporting applications with JavaScript for frontend and backend development.
- Understanding of software engineering fundamentals, version control, CI/CD, testing practices, containers, and secure coding principles.
- Experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
- Working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure and security technologies including ROSA, WAS, CaaS, AWS, Azure, load balancing, LDAP, and proxy services.
- Experience with monitoring and diagnostic tools including Splunk, Dynatrace, Elasticsearch, and Grafana.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to learn enterprise architecture and technology standards and balance software engineering with operational and availability-focused work.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with distributed systems, resiliency engineering, site reliability practices, Linux, cloud-native technologies, enterprise application platforms, and large-scale production applications.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement for candidates within 180 miles of the Dunwoody, GA; Richardson, TX; Tempe, AZ; or Bloomington, IL hubs.
- Potential starting salary of $85,000-$125,000, with potential yearly incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary.
- Health, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental health, and wellbeing benefits, with State Farm paying most healthcare premiums.
- Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
- Fertility, IVF, adoption, college coaching, financial coaching, and discount programs.
- Paid time off, up to 20 days initially, parental leave, paid holidays, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
- Matching Gift, Good Neighbor Grant, Employee Assistance Fund, financial advising, and a 401(k) plan with company contributions up to 7% of salary.
Tech Stack
Categories
Full StackSite Reliability
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.