Lead Software Engineer; Platform Engineering

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.

Imagine writing a Go controller and knowing that when it ships, it changes how thousands of engineers across State Farm deliver software. That's the kind of leverage this role has.

We are the Platform Engineering team responsible for Source Code Management systems at State Farm — and we're in the middle of something genuinely exciting: rebuilding our entire developer platform from the ground up. We're moving away from managing infrastructure at the VM/config-management layer and toward a Kubernetes‑native, Git Ops‑first Internal Developer Platform (IDP). We're standing up a modern Git Hub SaaS footprint, migrating our engineering teams off on‑prem Git Lab, building Kubernetes managed resources to automate Git Hub organizational state as code, writing custom Go controllers, and defining end‑to‑end software engineering practices that let product engineers ship features — not fight their tools or environments.

This isn't a "keep the lights on and file tickets" role. We build things. We own them end to end. We argue about the right abstractions in pull requests, we iterate based on feedback from the engineers who use our platform daily, and we have real influence over the direction we're headed. If you get excited about reconciliation loops, elegant operator design, and the idea that your platform
* is* the product — you'll fit right in here.

We're looking for a Software Engineer with a platform engineering mindset who leads by doing: someone who can design a Kubernetes composition in the morning, pair with a teammate on a Git Hub App integration in the afternoon, and have input and opinions about the end‑to‑end developer experience. Technical depth matters, but so does the ability to communicate, collaborate, and lift others around you.

• Design and build Kubernetes‑native automation in Go - custom controllers and Crossplane compositions that manage Git Hub organizational resources, repositories, teams, rulesets, and enterprise settings as declarative, reconciled state
• Own our Git Hub SaaS platform - organizational governance, enterprise policy enforcement, Git Hub Apps, and Git Hub Hosted Actions Compute; you’ll be one of the engineers defining what "Git Hub at enterprise scale" looks like at State Farm
• Build the path from Git Lab to Git Hub - design and build automated migration tooling that moves repositories, access, and settings from our on‑prem Git Lab to Git Hub Enterprise Cloud at scale, and partner with engineering teams to get them across with minimal disruption
• Champion platform adoption - our new platform sets the bar; your job is to help teams meet it. That means building tooling, guides, and automation that help engineering teams onboard: adopting their branching strategies, adjusting their deployment patterns, and conforming their applications to the new model.
• Enable Git Ops everywhere - every piece of state we own should be versioned, reconciled, and auditable; you’ll help make that real

• Language
  - Go
• Platform
  - Kubernetes (Red Hat Open Shift), Crossplane, custom controllers and operators
• Source control - git, Git Hub Enterprise Cloud, Git Hub Apps, Git Hub integrations
• Cloud - AWS