Managing Engineer , Database & Platform - Remote

Allstate Insurance; Illinois; Remote; USD 120,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

Monthly connectivity reimbursement

Work from home eligibility

Job summary

Allstate Insurance is seeking a Managing Engineer to lead the Database & Platform Engineering team responsible for on‑prem and cloud databases (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas). You will manage a team of Database Administrators and Platform Engineers who build, operate, and evolve the platform services that enable product teams to ship features safely and quickly.

This role combines people leadership with technical ownership of database architecture, and requires collaboration with

Qualifications

• 7+ years total experience in database administration or data platform engineering, with 3+ years in people management or technical leadership.
• Proven experience managing production deployments on premises and in cloud environments.
• Understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies.
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools.
• Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate migrations and platform changes.
• Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers.
• Own the technical roadmap for database platform services and drive improvements in scalability, availability, and cost.
• Lead platform engineering work: installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, capacity planning, and runbooks.
• Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns including high availability and disaster recovery.
• Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines for provisioning, migrations, and configuration management.
• Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, and risk mitigation.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance.
• Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, backups, and compliance.
• Participate in design reviews and product inception to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Lead post-incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Database Administration

Platform Engineering

Leadership

Cloud/AWS

CI/CD

Automation

Incident Management

Communication

Tools

MySQL

Redis

MongoDB

MongoDB Atlas

CI/CD tools

Job description

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

We are seeking a Managing Engineer to lead our Database & Platform Engineering team responsible for on prem and cloud databases (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and MongoDB Atlas etc). You will manage a team of Database Administrators/Platform Engineers who build, operate, and evolve the platform services that enable product teams to ship features safely and quickly. This role combines people leadership, technical ownership of database platform architecture, and hands on partnering with product and SRE teams to deliver operational excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers (hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching).
• Own the technical roadmap for database platform services (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on prem, and MongoDB Atlas), driving improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost.
• Lead platform engineering work: installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, patching, capacity planning, and runbooks for production systems.
• Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns (sharding/replication strategies, 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.

Essential (required) qualifications

• 7+ years total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles with 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity.
• Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments.
• Understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies.
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools
• Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate schema migrations and platform changes.
• Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership.

Preferred qualifications

• Experiencewithmanageddatabaseservices(MongoDBAtlas,AmazonRDS, Aurora, Azure,ElastiCache)andhybridcloudarchitectures.
• Familiaritywithobservabilitystacks(Datadog etc)andlogaggregation.
• Knowledgeofsecurityandcompliancecontrolsrelevanttodatastores(encryptionatrest/intransit,IAM,auditing).
• Experiencewithlargescaledatamigrationsandcrossregionreplication.
• Relevantcertifications(MongoDBCertifiedDBA,AWS/Azure//GCPcertifications).

Supervisory responsibilities

• Directly manage a team of 4-10 Database Administrators / Platform Engineers. Responsible for staffing, performance management, career development, and setting team goals and KPIs. Collaborates with hiring managers and senior leadership on resourcing and budget priorities.

Skills

Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Analytical Thinking, Business Strategies, Cloud Architectures, Coaching, Collaboration, Collaborative Development, Communication, Compliance, Computer Backups, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Improvement Initiatives, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Analytics, Database Administration, Database Architecture, Database Internals, Databasing, Disaster Recovery (DR), Employee Performance Evaluations, Executive Leadership, Failover {+ 22 more}

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 120,000.00 - 193,725.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.

• Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
• Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.