Product engineer- endpoint security

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

We are seeking an Endpoint Security Engineer to join our team to help secure and manage enterprise endpoint protection technologies across a global environment. This role will serve as a key technical resource responsible for administering and enhancing endpoint security platforms including CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and BeyondTrust Privileged Access Management (PAM).

The Endpoint Security Engineer is responsible for the design, administration, optimization, and support of enterprise endpoint security platforms. This role partners closely with Cyber Operations, Infrastructure, Desktop Engineering, and Identity teams to protect endpoints, improve detection capabilities, automate security processes, and strengthen the organization's overall security posture.

The ideal candidate combines strong operational security experience with modern engineering and automation skills. They have hands-on experience with EDR, firewall management, device control, API management, and endpoint security operations, along with a solid understanding of incident response and threat detection. Comfortable administering CrowdStrike and Microsoft security platforms, they leverage scripting, API integrations, GitHub-based workflows, and emerging AI-driven security technologies to automate processes, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen security outcomes. Curious, proactive, and innovative, they continuously seek opportunities to enhance the organization's cyber security capabilities through automation and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and optimize endpoint security controls.
• Evaluate new endpoint security technologies.
• Develop security baselines and endpoint hardening standards.
• Provide technical guidance for endpoint-related security projects.
• Understand system security vulnerabilities and associated threats, and assess the overall security risks to the system.
• Provide assistance to engineers to implement new security tools to feed our DevOps/SecOps processes, ensuring the solvency of computing resources.
• Participate as an active member of Design & Build IT projects, steering configurations and services towards industry-leading security practices within domain expertise.
• Work alongside Senior Security Engineers/Architects, and assist in Proof of Concepts and implementation of the security solution.
• Assist with security and compliance-based projects involving cloud, operating systems, applications, and database and security issues and requirements.
• Understand DevOps ideologies with the ability to drive and communicate change supporting DevOps/SecOps methodology within the organization.
• Understand software installations, systems monitoring and troubleshooting, account management, and overall efforts to minimize system.

Essential Skills:

• 3 years or more of professional experience in cybersecurity, endpoint security, or security engineering.
• 1 year or more of professional experience administering Anti-Virus/Endpoint Detection Response solutions.
• Experience investigating security events and supporting incident response activities.
• 1 year or more of professional experience with PowerShell, Python, or similar scripting languages. (Or Equivalent)
• Experience working with APIs and automation workflows.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with privileged access management platforms.
• Familiarity with GitHub and version control best practices.
• Experience with Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platforms.
• Experience with Microsoft Sentinel or other SIEM platforms.
• Experience implementing AI-assisted security operations or security copilots.

Experience

3 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have supervisory duties.

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 90,700.00 - 153,925.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.