Principal Engineer, Developer Experience

Allstate is an insurance company that uses innovation and technology to help protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. The Principal Engineer will lead the Developer Experience organization, setting technical strategy and improving the tools, platforms, and capabilities used by engineers. This role also champions AI-assisted development, partners across the enterprise, and leads teams delivering secure, scalable, and effective engineering solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the vision, technical strategy, and execution of Allstate's Developer Experience program, ensuring engineers have access to modern, secure, and efficient development tools and platforms
• Serve as a trusted advocate for the engineering community by continuously gathering feedback, understanding developer pain points, and driving improvements that reduce friction and increase productivity
• Remain actively engaged in software engineering practices, contributing to technical discussions, prototypes, automation initiatives, and platform improvements
• Evaluate, validate, and govern developer tools, plugins, frameworks, and platform capabilities before enterprise adoption to ensure security, reliability, and scalability
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted software development, including GitHub Copilot and emerging agentic engineering capabilities, identifying opportunities to improve developer effectiveness and software quality
• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, platform teams, and product stakeholders to create a seamless and consistent development experience across the enterprise
• Drive innovation through experimentation, proof-of-concepts, technical demonstrations, and continuous assessment of emerging technologies
• Establish metrics and KPIs focused on developer productivity, platform adoption, engineering satisfaction, and operational excellence
• Build and lead high-performing teams while fostering a culture of technical excellence, learning, innovation, and customer-centric thinking
• Influence enterprise-wide engineering standards, best practices, and technology decisions that enhance the software development lifecycle
• Lead globally distributed and cross-functional teams to deliver modern engineering capabilities that enable speed, quality, security, and reliability

Requirements:

• Developer-first mindset with a passion for improving the engineering experience
• Ability to influence technology strategy and drive adoption of new tools and practices across the enterprise
• Proven change leadership and experience leading engineering transformation initiatives
• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across engineering, product, and business teams
• Demonstrated people leadership experience and developing high-performing teams
• Effective communicator with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value
• Experience influencing vendor roadmaps and product strategies to align with evolving business objectives and operational priorities
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering organizations, platform engineering teams, or developer experience functions
• Demonstrated hands-on experience building software and working directly with developer platforms, automation tools, and cloud-native technologies
• Experience leveraging GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted engineering tools, large language models, and emerging agentic development capabilities
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle and modern engineering practices
• Proven ability to influence senior technical leaders and drive adoption of new technologies and engineering practices
• Experience presenting technical concepts, facilitating demonstrations, and engaging directly with engineering communities
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field
• Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position