Lead IAM Security Engineer

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HYBRID: Qualified candidates must live or relocate 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; 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

The Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM) team is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to provide technical leadership in designing, developing, and supporting secure, scalable customer identity solutions that protect millions of customer interactions across State Farm's digital channels.

This role partners closely with Product, Architecture, Information Security, Fraud, Privacy, and Enterprise Technology to modernize customer authentication and registration capabilities while ensuring security, reliability, and exceptional customer experiences.

As State Farm continues advancing its customer identity platform, this engineer will lead the implementation of strategic initiatives including Passkeys, Passwordless Authentication, Identity Verification, Registration Modernization, Adaptive Authentication, and emerging digital identity capabilities.

• Design, develop, and maintain modern customer identity applications using industry-leading software engineering practices.
• Build secure authentication, registration, identity verification, and authorization capabilities that support millions of customer interactions.
• Design highly available, resilient, and scalable identity services aligned with enterprise architecture and security standards.
• Partner with Product Managers, Architects, Information Security, Fraud, Privacy, and Digital Experience teams to understand customer and business needs.
• Translate business requirements into secure, scalable technical solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative customer identity capabilities.
• Design secure APIs and full-stack applications supporting customer authentication and identity services.
• Apply secure software engineering practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Protect customer identity data through secure design, modern authentication protocols, and enterprise security controls.
• Ensure technology assets are designed with resiliency, observability, and operational excellence in mind.
• Take ownership of customer identity products throughout their full lifecycle - from design through production support.
• Participate in Agile planning, backlog refinement, code reviews, CI/CD, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement.
• Support production operations, incident response, and operational readiness.
• Design authentication experiences that balance security with usability.
• Improve customer registration, authentication, and identity verification journeys through thoughtful engineering and user-centered design.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver frictionless, secure digital experiences.
• Lead technical design discussions and architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence across the CIAM organization.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns and best practices.
• Help define the technical vision and future direction of the Customer Identity platform.

• Apply advanced software engineering practices to design and build secure full-stack applications.
• Design and develop enterprise APIs and identity services.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues.
• Apply modern software engineering practices including:
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Secure coding
  • Automated testing
  • CI/CD
  • Infrastructure automation
  • Containers
  • Cloud-native development
• Build highly available and observable services using enterprise monitoring and logging capabilities.
• Apply advanced understanding of software architecture, data movement, integration patterns, and system design.
• Influence technical direction and engineering best practices across customer identity solutions.
• Support multiple concurrent initiatives while balancing strategic roadmap delivery and production support.
• Apply modern…