Lead Platform Software Engineer

State Farm•Dunwoody, GA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. We're moving with urgency to become a Next Gen Good Neighbor, with technology that strengthens human connections and enhances the customer experience. As an employee, you'll spend less time navigating systems and more time applying judgment, empathy, and expertise in the moments that matter most. Qualified candidates must live within a 180-mile radius of a hub location listed below and should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment. HUB LOCATIONS: Bloomington, IL; Richardson, TX; Atlanta, GA; or Tempe, AZ SPONSORSHIP: Applicants for this position are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity. Grow Your Skills, Grow Your Potential

Requirements

Go, JavaScript/TypeScript (Back-end)
AWS (ROSA), Terraform (Our infrastructure)
Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, KRM
GitLab and CI/CD best practices
GitHub, GitHub CICD with GH Actions and Runners, GH Workflows and automation
Kubernetes compositions and templating

Nice To Haves

Experience defining CI/CD platform strategy across an engineering organization (Well Architected Frameworks and Enterprise Software Change Management Standards)
Ability to measure and improve developer productivity, deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR
Experience building self-service developer platforms or paved-road/golden path delivery workflows and experiences
Strong judgment around standardization versus team autonomy
Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive adoption of engineering best practices across teams

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain an enterprise-grade developer platform focused on end-to-end CI/CD and developer delivery workflows across the full SDLC.
Bring deep hands-on expertise in GitLab/GitHub/GitHub Actions—including branch protection, PR workflows, required checks, runners, reusable/composite workflows, release automation, and governance—to standardize how teams build, test, and release.
Create reusable pipeline templates and workflow standards, integrate Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and declarative YAML configuration, and enable secure, reliable deployments across dev/test/staging/prod plus ephemeral preview environments.
Embed security, quality, and compliance into the platform by design through secrets management, least-privilege access, audit logging, and supply-chain protections such as SBOMs, artifact signing, and provenance.
Implement and automate security scanning and policy-as-code, partnering closely with security teams, while connecting delivery events to operational and planning tools (e.g., Slack notifications/approvals/incident alerts and Jira traceability).
Document platform standards and runbooks, troubleshoot and debug pipeline/deployment failures, and translate platform engineering work into measurable business impact through close collaboration with application engineers, SREs, QA, product, and release management.

Benefits

Compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week!
Potential starting salary range: $120,000 - $150,000
Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience
High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience
Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary
Annual raise and bonus
Robust health and wellbeing programs
State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium
Multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan
All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care
Vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
Educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance
College coaching
National discount programs
Interactive monthly financial workshops
Free financial coaching
Start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
Generous time off policies
Opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave
Paid holidays
Celebration day
Life leave (40 hours/year)
Bereavement leave
Community service/education support days
Matching Gift Program
Good Neighbor Grant Program
Employee Assistance Fund
Free financial advisors
401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary