Product Security Engineers (Multiple Levels) (Hybrid)

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs.

Your role in the team

The Product Security Engineering organization is responsible for designing, building, and operating enterprise security controls as software products. The group applies modern software engineering practices to create scalable, reliable, and developer‐friendly security capabilities that are embedded directly into the enterprise technology ecosystem, enabling secure‐by‐default behaviours while minimizing friction for product and platform teams. Product Security Engineers are software engineers who own the full software development lifecycle — from design and implementation through deployment and production support. They write and maintain production code, operate their services in real‐world environments, and are accountable for the reliability, adoption, and effectiveness of the security controls they deliver. Success in this role is measured through outcomes such as control adoption, system reliability, and meaningful reduction of security risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate enterprise security controls as software products that integrate directly into the SDLC and core enterprise platforms.
• Own security control capabilities end‐to‐end, including architecture, implementation, deployment, and ongoing operational support in production.
• Write, test, and maintain high‐quality production code while meeting delivery and reliability expectations as a software engineer.
• Apply engineering best practices such as test‐driven development, paired programming, and continuous integration and deployment.
• Contribute to high‐level and low‐level system and component designs with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security outcomes.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and patterns to improve the effectiveness and usability of security controls.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, platform teams, and partner engineering groups to align security control capabilities with enterprise needs.
• Participate in agile delivery ceremonies and contribute to a culture of fast feedback, incremental delivery, and continuous improvement.

Essential Skills:

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• Minimum of 3 years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production systems throughout the full software development lifecycle which must include proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript).
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and operating scalable distributed systems and cloud‐based applications, including microservices architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and integrate APIs and backend services, including REST‐based interfaces.
• Familiarity with modern development workflows and engineering practices such as test-driven development, paired programming, and continuous integration and deployment.
• Experience collaborating effectively within agile delivery models, working closely with product managers, engineers, and partner teams to deliver outcomes.

Additional Criteria for Lead and Expert Levels

• Minimum of 1 year of demonstrated experience coaching or mentoring engineers, with evidence of improving individual or team technical capability over time.
• Proven ability to lead technical design and architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems, resulting in measurable improvements to scalability, security, reliability, or performance.
• Track record of driving cross-team collaboration to deliver integrated solutions, achieving alignment across multiple product portfolios and stakeholder groups.

Desirable Skills

• Working knowledge of application and API security concepts, including common vulnerability classes (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and attack techniques (e.g., MITRE ATT).