Lead Software Engineer

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

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.

State Farm is looking for two experienced Lead Software Engineers to develop our internal Ada platform's developer portal. The Portal gives engineers a guided way to request, view, and manage the services and resources they need to build software. These software engineers will build and support that experience, from the user interface through the Portal API's connection to the Kubernetes control plane.

You'll work closely with the Experience Orchestration team. They primarily define the platform's resource APIs and operate Crossplane and KRM; our team builds the Portal and its golden paths, captures the information those APIs need, and helps users understand what happens after a request is submitted.

• Build and improve the Portal's guided workflows for work spaces, services, deployables, and other platform capabilities.
• Develop accessible, responsive interfaces that make complex provisioning choices clear to engineers.
• Build and support Portal APIs that validate requests, commit the resource values needed by the control plane, and present provisioning status and errors.
• Work with Experience Orchestration to turn resource definitions into usable workflows and troubleshoot issues across the Portal and control plane.
• Occasionally help author or update XRDs, CRDs, or controllers when a platform capability needs that contribution.
• Test, document, and support the features you deliver.

• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and Kubernetes Resource Management, including custom resources, schemas, permissions, and desired versus observed state.
• UI/UX development experience with Angular or a comparable modern framework.
• Experience building or integrating APIs and independently delivering tested software features.
• Ability to diagnose problems across application code, Git Ops workflows, and Kubernetes resources.
• A practical interest in making platform capabilities understandable and useful to other engineers.

• Experience developing in Go.
• Angular and Type Script experience.
• Experience with Crossplane, XRDs, CRDs, Kubernetes controllers, or controller-runtime.
• Familiarity with Git Ops, Argo CD, accessibility practices, and automated UI and API testing.

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: $130,000 - $180,000
  • 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