Software Engineer Manager

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

• Experience with managed database services (MongoDB Atlas, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Azure, ElastiCache) and hybrid cloud architectures.
• 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

• 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.

Primary 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 Im…