Senior Database Engineer – Security & Data Platform Resilience

Allstate; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

Monitors provided

Connectivity reimbursement

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to join the Exposure Intelligence team within Cybersecurity, focusing on reducing data exposure risks across databases and data stores.

You will work across RDBMS, NoSQL, data warehouses, and cloud services, partnering with platform, cloud, and security teams to implement practical remediation.

This engineering-focused role blends data engineering with security, offering a path to deepen your expertise while protecting the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Interest in data security and CTEM/exposure management.
• Strong hands-on experience in database engineering or data-platform engineering.
• Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL technologies and their architecture.
• Solid understanding of authentication, authorization, roles and permissions.
• Ability to analyze complex issues and translate into practical engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Apply database and data-platform engineering across RDBMS, NoSQL, data warehouses, object storage, and related data services with a security lens.
• Investigate issues like overly broad access, stale entitlements, exposed storage, and misconfigured access policies.
• Use queries, logs, and evidence to validate exposures and map real-world impact and attack paths.
• Partner with database, data platform, cloud, and security teams to develop remediation strategies and guardrails.
• Help prioritize issues by exploitability and business impact rather than all findings equally.
• Reduce recurring data-access risks through better engineering practices, configurations, and controls.

Skills

Database Engineering

Cloud Data Architecture

Database Access Control

Authentication Methods

Security Configuration

Database Segmentation

Tools

RDBMS

NoSQL

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

Bring your database engineering expertise to the evolving world of cybersecurity. If you're an experienced database engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems and wants to expand your impact into cybersecurity, this could be a compelling next step in your career.

Allstate internal Business Title: Service Consultant – Database Exposure Intelligence

Allstate Job Profile & Family: Lead Consultant- Threat & Incident Response

Team and overall work scope

• The team operates within a newly established Exposure Management function in the broader cybersecurity organization, focused on modernizing how the enterprise identifies, prioritizes, and mitigates security vulnerabilities shifting from traditional patch approaches to a more strategic focus on true business risk and exploitability
• Individual Contributor/ Service Consultant roles are designed to bring in deep respective domain expertise (network, endpoint, cloud, identity, infrastructure, Databases & Data Stores, etc.) to bridge the gap between security insights and practical remediation strategies
• Exposure Intelligence Service Consultant – Databases & Data Stores is the SME responsible for identifying and prioritizing exposure risk across data platforms, including RDBMS, NoSQL systems, data warehouses, object storage, and data permissions models.
• This role applies CTEM (Continuous Threat Exposure Management) model principles to identify exploitable exposure conditions that lead to unauthorized access, data exfiltration, or privilege misuse, partnering with data platform and engineering teams to reduce real enterprise exposure.

About the role and the ideal candidate

• We’re looking for a Senior Database Engineer who is passionate about database and data-platform engineering and interested in applying that expertise to complex security challenges.
• This is an engineering-first, security-focused role for someone experienced with databases, data stores, permissions, access models, and enterprise data environments. You do not need to be a dedicated database security professional. We're looking for a strong engineer who has gained security exposure through their work and wants to deepen that expertise.

Success Measures

• Reduction in high-impact data exposure conditions (permissions and access pathways).
• Improved visibility and prioritization of data-access-related attack paths.
• Stronger partnership with data platform teams and fewer recurring access control failures.

What You’ll Do

• Apply your database and data-platform engineering expertise across RDBMS, NoSQL, data warehouses, object storage, and related data services. Analyze database configurations, permissions, access models, storage, encryption, and service-to-service access through a security lens.
• Investigate issues such as overly broad access, stale entitlements, exposed storage, weak auditability, and misconfigured access policies.
• Use queries, logs, and technical evidence to validate potential exposures and understand their real-world impact. Identify potential attack paths that could lead to unauthorized data access, privilege expansion, or sensitive-data exposure.
• Partner with database, data platform, cloud, and security teams to develop practical remediation strategies and preventative engineering guardrails.
• Help prioritize which issues matter most based on exploitability and potential business impact rather than treating every technical finding equally.
• Help reduce recurring database and data-access risks through better engineering practices, configurations, and controls.

Required Qualifications

• Interest in developing deeper expertise in data security, attack-path analysis, and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). The underlying role applies CTEM principles to data-platform exposure.
• Strong hands-on experience in database engineering, database administration, or data-platform engineering.
• Experience working with RDBMS and/or NoSQL database technologies and their underlying architecture, configuration, and operations.
• Solid understanding of database authentication, authorization, roles, permissions, and access models.
• Experience troubleshooting complex database or data-platform issues using queries, logs, or other technical data.
• Experience identifying or remediating overly broad permissions, stale access, misconfigured storage, or service-to-service access concerns.
• Understanding of how database and data-layer weaknesses could contribute to privilege escalation, unauthorized access, or data exposure.
• Working knowledge of database hardening, access controls, encryption, vulnerability remediation, or other security considerations encountered through database engineering work.
• Ability to analyze complex technical issues and translate them into practical engineering solutions.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work across database, platform, cloud, engineering, and cybersecurity teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data warehouses, object storage, cloud databases, or cloud data services.
• Experience with database hardening and secure configuration practices.
• Familiarity with cloud data services and their permission models.
• Exposure to data-access governance, security engineering, vulnerability management, or exposure management.

What Makes This Opportunity Different

• This isn’t traditional database engineering, and it isn’t traditional cybersecurity. It brings the two together.
• Instead of focusing only on operating and optimizing databases, you’ll use your engineering expertise to understand how database and datastore environments can become exposed and how better engineering can reduce that risk.
• For a database engineer who has developed an interest in security, this is an exciting opportunity to stay rooted in engineering while growing your expertise in data security, exposure management, and cybersecurity.

Skills

Authentication Methods, Cloud Data Architecture, Database Access Control, Database Engineering, Database Segmentation, Security Configuration

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 100,000.00 - 170,500.00 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.

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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.

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