Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is an insurance company that develops technology and protection solutions to address customers’ evolving needs. The Managing Engineer, Data Security Engineering leads a team that designs, builds, and operates scalable data security products and controls across DLP Policy, Data Intelligence, and Data Access. The role combines people leadership, technical direction, hands-on engineering, and delivery ownership to protect sensitive data while enabling appropriate business use.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a high-performing team accountable for engineering data security products and controls
- Set technical direction and drive execution across architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and production support
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through code and, solution design, key technical decisions, and critical implementation work
- Guide the engineering of capabilities across DLP Policy, Data Intelligence, or Data Access, including policy automation, data discovery and classification, and access controls
- Develop and advance policy-as-code workflows, reusable control patterns, detection logic, platform integrations, and automated testing and deployment
- Automate control lifecycle activities, including validation, configuration drift detection, reporting, alert enrichment, and operational health checks
- Own the reliability, effectiveness, adoption, and continuous improvement of the team’s products and controls
- Translate complex data security requirements into scalable technical solutions and measurable outcomes
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software, data, or security engineering experience, including ownership of production systems and technical products
- 2+ years of experience leading engineers while remaining actively engaged in technical design, code reviews, and complex engineering work
- Deep technical knowledge of data protection, including DLP, data discovery and classification, information protection, data access controls, and data governance
- Comprehensive understanding of cloud, SaaS, CASB, and enterprise data protection architectures
- Strong scripting and automation proficiency using Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, Terraform, YAML, JSON, or comparable technologies
- Proven ability to build version-controlled security solutions using policy as code, automated delivery pipelines, APIs, and reusable components
- Demonstrated success transforming manual, console-based administration into scalable, automated operating models
- Familiarity with Microsoft Purview and other enterprise platforms supporting DLP, data discovery and classification, information protection, or data access governance
- Knowledge of integrating data security capabilities with identity, cloud, SIEM, SOAR, workflow, and enterprise data platforms through APIs and event-driven architectures
- Proven ability to influence technical decisions and drive adoption of secure patterns and engineering standards across product areas
- Demonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and developing emerging technical leaders
- Understanding of security and operational measures, such as control adoption, detection quality, reliability, and risk reduction, used to evaluate engineering outcomes and guide priorities
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement.
- 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.
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