Director, Engineer; AI, Data & Security Tooling Ecosystem

Job Description

About Agentic Cyber Operations & Platforms (ACO&P): A net-new Digital Product Team structure designed to transform Cyber Operations scalability with AI, a high-fidelity Security Operations Data Plane, and default operating capabilities.

The Principal Engineer is the technical authority for AI, Security Operations Data, and security tooling ecosystem. They define and enforce engineering standards that ensure shared AI and data capabilities are reliable, secure-by-design, observable, and auditable at scale, while supporting ACO&P’s tooling readiness.

• Ecosystem architecture and technical strategy: define reference architecture, technical standards, and reusable primitives for AI enablement services and ecosystem integrations.
• Engineering excellence and delivery discipline: establish standards for code quality, test-driven development, availability, and secure software engineering practices.
• Agentic safety and governance-by-design: engineer guardrails for AI-assisted workflows and secure-by-default configurations.
• Security Operations Data Plane engineering: ensure ingestion, transformation, schema discipline, enrichment, and analytics readiness are engineered for reliability, performance, and defensible operations.
• Tooling readiness and lifecycle stewardship: define integration contracts, automate configuration, and ensure tooling adheres to ecosystem standards and monitoring.
• Reliability, incident readiness, and continuous improvement: ensure platform services and operated tooling have runbooks, health signals, and repeatable remediation patterns.
• Coaching and technical leadership: coach engineers, provide technical oversight, and serve as escalation point for complex design decisions and cross-product tradeoffs.

• 7–10 years of relevant new product or technology development experience in a fast-paced environment, with demonstrated experience shipping software and managing complex integrations.
• Undergraduate degree in engineering, computer science, marketing, or related business degree; MBA/MIS/MS desired.
• Proven ability to lead cross-product technical strategy and influence senior stakeholders on complex design decisions.
• Strong hands‑on experience establishing CI/CD practices and operating production systems with accountability to KPIs/outcomes.

• Security data and analytics engineering: log/telemetry pipelines, schema governance, normalization/enrichment, and query-driven analytics concepts.
• Cloud and data platform familiarity: experience with cloud-native logging/analytics platforms, time-series/log query languages, and data ingestion/transformation patterns.
• Automation and platform engineering: reusable libraries/services and developer enablement through paved roads/golden paths.
• Agentic AI secure-by-design practices: least-privilege tool access, restricted interactions, resilience to manipulation, evidence logging and explainability expectations.
• Risk, privacy, and compliance alignment: experience partnering with risk/legal/privacy stakeholders on assessment processes for AI-enabled capabilities and regulated data handling.

• AI enablement and data plane capabilities are production-grade, observable, and defensible with measurable reliability improvements and reduced operational toil.
• Ecosystem standards are adopted consistently across ACO&P platforms and any operated tooling.
• Tooling incorporated into ACO&P is integrated via repeatable patterns and integration contracts, with automation-first operations and clear health signals.
• Cyber Operations teams experience faster time-to-outcome because shared primitives and data discipline remove friction and reduce handoffs.

Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with…