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Overview 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.
HYBRID 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 Responsibilities As a Lead Platform Engineer , you will design, build, and maintain an enterprise-grade developer platform focused on end-to-end CI/CD and developer delivery workflows across the full SDLC. You’ll 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.
You’ll 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. A core responsibility is to 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.
You will 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). You’ll also 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.
Qualifications 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 Senior-Level Differentiators 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 Our Benefits Because work-life balance is a priority at State Farm, 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 At State Farm, we offer more than just a paycheck. Check out our suite of benefits designed to give you the flexibility you need to take care of you and your family!
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