Allstate

Allstate

Managing Engineer , Database & Platform - Remote

USA - IL (Remote)

No sponsorship$120k-$194kDetected 26 days ago
MySQLMongoDBRedisAWSGCPAzureCI/CDDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringRESTData AnalysisIncident ResponseCRMAuditingPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

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Lottery odds (Level III)83
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About the role

  • Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance.
  • Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, security, backups, and compliance.
  • Represent the database platform across cross functional initiatives and influence long term architecture decisions.

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.
  • 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.
  • Drive proactive incident prevention.

Requirements

  • Essential (required) qualifications
  • Experience with automation and orchestration tools
  • The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
  • 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.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with observability stacks (Datadog etc) and log aggregation.
  • Knowledge of security and compliance controls relevant to data stores (encryption at rest/in transit, IAM, auditing).
  • Experience with large‑scale data migrations and cross‑region replication.
  • Relevant certifications (MongoDB Certified DBA, AWS/Azure//GCP certifications).
  • Supervisory responsibilities
  • Responsible for staffing, performance management, career development, and setting team goals and KPIs.

Skills

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Compensation

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

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  • Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

Company info

  • Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Equal opportunity

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Visa & Work Authorization

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