Principal Engineer, Developer Experience

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead the vision, technical strategy, and execution of Allstate's Developer Experience program, ensuring engineers have access to modern, secure, and efficient development tools and platforms. 

• Serve as a trusted advocate for the engineering community by continuously gathering feedback, understanding developer pain points, and driving improvements that reduce friction and increase productivity. 

• Remain actively engaged in software engineering practices, contributing to technical discussions, prototypes, automation initiatives, and platform improvements. 

• Evaluate, validate, and govern developer tools, plugins, frameworks, and platform capabilities before enterprise adoption to ensure security, reliability, and scalability. 

• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted software development, including GitHub Copilot and emerging agentic engineering capabilities, identifying opportunities to improve developer effectiveness and software quality. 

• Partner with engineering leaders, architects, platform teams, and product stakeholders to create a seamless and consistent development experience across the enterprise. 

• Drive innovation through experimentation, proof-of-concepts, technical demonstrations, and continuous assessment of emerging technologies. 

• Establish metrics and KPIs focused on developer productivity, platform adoption, engineering satisfaction, and operational excellence. 

• Build and lead high-performing teams while fostering a culture of technical excellence, learning, innovation, and customer-centric thinking. 

• Influence enterprise-wide engineering standards, best practices, and technology decisions that enhance the software development lifecycle. 

• Lead globally distributed and cross-functional teams to deliver modern engineering capabilities that enable speed, quality, security, and reliability. 
   

Skills & Capabilities 

• Developer-first mindset with a passion for improving the engineering experience. 

• Ability to influence technology strategy and drive adoption of new tools and practices across the enterprise. 

• Proven change leadership and experience leading engineering transformation initiatives. 

• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills across engineering, product, and business teams. 

• Demonstrated people leadership experience and developing high-performing teams. 

• Effective communicator with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value. 

• Experience influencing vendor roadmaps and product strategies to align with evolving business objectives and operational priorities. 
   

Experience 

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering organizations, platform engineering teams, or developer experience functions. 

• Demonstrated hands-on experience building software and working directly with developer platforms, automation tools, and cloud-native technologies. 

• Experience leveraging GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted engineering tools, large language models, and emerging agentic development capabilities. 

• Strong understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle and modern engineering practices. 

• Proven ability to influence senior technical leaders and drive adoption of new technologies and engineering practices. 

• Experience presenting technical concepts, facilitating demonstrations, and engaging directly with engineering communities. 
   

Education 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field. 

Supervisory Responsibilities  

• This job has supervisory duties.