Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is a leading insurance company with a history of innovation in protecting families and their belongings. They are seeking a Lead Product Engineer to drive innovation in their AI-powered Observability platform, focusing on building scalable, intelligent automation and self-healing systems across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The role involves leading product strategy, engineering excellence, and delivering AI-driven monitoring and automation capabilities to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Design and build agentic AI solutions for observability, including autonomous agents capable of anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and automated remediation
- Embed AI/ML capabilities into observability platforms to enable predictive insights, anomaly detection, and intelligent alerting
- Develop AIOps frameworks that reduce noise, automate workflows, and improve incident response times
- Leverage LLMs and AI orchestration frameworks to create self-service diagnostics and operational assistants
- Architect and implement end-to-end observability solutions across logs, metrics, traces, and events
- Enhance observability platforms (Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, AppDynamics, OTEL) with custom integrations, automation, and AI enhancements
- Build real-time insights and health analytics to ensure system reliability, scalability, and performance
- Lead development of scalable, reusable platform components and APIs for observability and automation
- Build developer-first tools and frameworks that simplify instrumentation, monitoring, and diagnostics
- Apply modern software engineering practices including TDD, CI/CD, microservices, and cloud-native design
- Develop full-stack solutions (backend services, dashboards, automation tooling) using Java/Spring Boot, Python, Node.js, and React
- Drive automation-first strategies to eliminate manual operations and improve efficiency
- Build self-healing systems that automatically detect and remediate issues
- Lead initiatives in infrastructure-as-code, Observability-as-code and automated deployment pipelines
- Engineer highly resilient systems by focusing on performance, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Define and evolve enterprise observability architecture, incorporating AI and automation as core principles
- Collaborate with architecture, platform, and security teams to align solutions with enterprise standards
- Champion standardization, reusable patterns, and platform scalability across the organization
- Act as a technical leader and mentor, guiding teams in AI, observability, and engineering best practices
- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated, high-impact platform solutions
- Communicate technical concepts and strategies effectively to both technical and executive audiences
- Foster a culture of innovation, automation, and continuous improvement
Skills
- 5+ years of engineering experience building software, platforms, or automation solutions, with a strong emphasis on observability and distributed systems
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Dynatrace, OTEL)
- 3+ years of software development experience using Java (Spring Boot), Python, Node.js, or React
- 2+ years of hands-on experience building agentic AI systems (autonomous agents, AI workflows, or AI-native applications)
- Proven ability to design and implement AI-driven automation and AIOps solutions
- Experience integrating LLMs, orchestration frameworks, or AI pipelines into production systems
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures
- Hands-on experience in hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud) across Linux and Windows
- Expertise in API development, event-driven systems, and microservices architecture
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps practices
- Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on automation and innovation
- Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical solutions
- Passion for emerging technologies, particularly AI in observability and operations
Benefits
- 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.
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