Software Engineer / Lead Software Engineer - Enterprise Claims Build Automation & Release Engineering (Gradle, Maven)

				Overview:

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. Come join a #1 team and do some good!

Responsibilities:

As a Software Engineer / Lead Software Engineer in Enterprise Technology (ET) Claims, you will join the Enterprise Claim System (ECS) Build team, the team that owns CI/CD pipeline infrastructure, build automation, and release engineering for one of State Farm's largest and most complex applications. ECS spans 40+ product modules across concurrent release streams, compiled and deployed through scheduled full-system builds orchestrated by both a legacy Jenkins cluster and an evolving GitLab CI platform. You will drive the modernization of this ecosystem, migrating Jenkins jobs to GitLab CI pipelines (with GitHub on the long-term horizon), evolving builds from Ant/Maven toward Gradle, and building the shared tooling and automation that keeps hundreds of Claims developers productive.

What you will do

* Design, implement, and maintain GitLab CI pipelines that compile, package, and validate a large-scale Java application across multiple concurrent release streams using shared AWS runners and custom Docker images.
* Migrate and retire legacy Jenkins jobs by re-implementing them as modular, reusable GitLab CI pipelines using shared templates and source libraries.
* Build and maintain developer-facing utilities such as tagging tools, merge validation, code search, build comparison/diff, version reporting, and code metrics, all delivered as pipeline-triggered automation.
* Develop and evolve internal dashboards that provide release teams and developers real-time visibility into build health, queue times, and deployment status.
* Manage shared build infrastructure: custom container images, artifact repository integration (JFrog Artifactory), credential management, multi-environment deployment orchestration, and runner configuration.
* Automate release operations: branch/tag management across multi-stream releases, version management, configuration-only builds, and externalized configuration.
* Drive long-term modernization: evaluate and implement Gradle as a replacement for Ant and Maven build scripts; prepare for eventual migration from GitLab to GitHub, aligned with enterprise technology direction.

Qualifications:

Required

* Strong engineering fundamentals (design, secure coding, testing, maintainability) with experience delivering and supporting production build/release systems at scale.
* Hands-on CI/CD pipeline development: writing pipeline definitions, designing multi-stage workflows, working with shared runners, and managing pipeline-as-code patterns (not just triggering builds).
* Proficiency in shell scripting (Bash) for build automation, comfortable writing scripts that interact with Git, REST APIs, and orchestrate multi-step build processes.
* Solid Git workflows: branching strategies, tagging conventions, multi-stream release management, and merge validation.
* Unix/Linux command-line fluency; experience with Docker container images for CI environments.
* Strong ownership, collaboration, and communication; comfortable working across teams and navigating ambiguity.

Desired

* Experience with Gradle (Kotlin or Groovy DSL), particularly migrating large Java projects from Ant or Maven.
* GitLab CI advanced patterns: parent-child pipelines, shared templates/includes, dynamic variable generation, custom runner configuration, container registry management.
* Apache Ant and/or Maven deep knowledge (for maintaining the current estate while migrating forward).
* Artifact repository management (JFrog Artifactory or similar): promotion strategies, credential management, retention policies.
* Python scripting for build automation and reporting.
* GitHub Actions experience (future-state target).
* Cloud platforms (AWS): understanding of compute runners, region selection, and cost optimization for CI workloads.
* Web development skills (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) for building internal dashboards and reporting tools.
* Observability tools (Splunk, Dynatrace) for pipeline performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
* Experience with security scanning tools (Snyk or similar) integrated into CI pipelines.

HYBRID: 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; Dunwoody, GA; 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

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