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The Role
Designs, develops, tests, maintains, and operates secure production software and cloud infrastructure. The engineer works across teams on architecture, scalable microservices, APIs, databases, asynchronous processing, observability, and resilient systems. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership, automated testing, CI/CD delivery, production support, incident response, Agile collaboration, mentoring, and raising engineering standards. The role may include rotating after-hours on-call support.
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Job Summary:
Cox Automotive is looking for a senior software engineer that applies the principles of secure software engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software and cloud infrastructure. Works cross functionally to understand business requirements, architecture and technology direction, evaluate alternative approaches and ensure software and systems are designed accordingly. Incorporates state-of-the-art concepts and practices to facilitate system functionality, scalability, resilience and security as well as ease-of-use (developer / user experience). Applies agile principles to software development with a focus on delivery of business value, collaboration, continuous improvement and sustainability.
Visa Sponsorship: Cox Automotive is unable to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position, candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
USD 101,500.00 - 169,100.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $101,500.00 - $169,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
EOE, including disability/vets
Cox Automotive is looking for a senior software engineer that applies the principles of secure software engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software and cloud infrastructure. Works cross functionally to understand business requirements, architecture and technology direction, evaluate alternative approaches and ensure software and systems are designed accordingly. Incorporates state-of-the-art concepts and practices to facilitate system functionality, scalability, resilience and security as well as ease-of-use (developer / user experience). Applies agile principles to software development with a focus on delivery of business value, collaboration, continuous improvement and sustainability.
Visa Sponsorship: Cox Automotive is unable to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position, candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field; or a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 years' experience in a related field; or 12 years' experience in a related field with no degree.
- Professional experience designing, building, and maintaining production software in a modern object-oriented language (e.g., C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript, Python, C++).
- Strong command of object-oriented design fundamentals - encapsulation, composition, interface design, SOLID, dependency injection, and common design patterns - with the judgment to know when not to apply them.
- Experience delivering software in a microservice or service-oriented architecture, including defining service boundaries, versioning APIs, and handling distributed failure modes (timeouts, retries, idempotency, partial failure).
- Experience designing and consuming HTTP/REST APIs (or gRPC/GraphQL equivalents), including contract design, backward compatibility, and authentication/authorization patterns.
- Proficiency with relational databases: schema design, indexing, query tuning, transactions, and managed schema migrations.
- Experience with asynchronous and message-driven processing using queues, topics, or event streams.
- Experience building and operating services in a public cloud environment, including containerized workloads.
- Demonstrated automated testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, with work delivered through a CI/CD pipeline.
- Proficiency with Git-based workflows and code review as a routine part of delivery - both giving and receiving substantive feedback.
- Experience with production support and observability: structured logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and triaging live incidents.
- Track record of senior-level ownership: taking ambiguous problems through design, implementation, and release; decomposing work for others; and raising engineering standards on a team.
- Clear written and verbal communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in an Agile or iterative delivery model.
- This role may require participation in a rotating on-call schedule, including support outside of regular business hours.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Comfort with AI-assisted development tooling as part of a normal workflow.
- Hands-on experience with C# and .NET (modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core).
- Front-end experience with React and TypeScript, including modern component patterns, state management, and component/E2E testing.
- Production experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
- Experience using Redis for caching, distributed locking, or rate limiting, including cache invalidation strategy.
- AWS experience, particularly ECS/Fargate, RDS, SQS/SNS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation) and Docker.
- Familiarity with distributed system patterns such as outbox, saga/compensating transactions, eventual consistency, and idempotent consumers.
- Demonstrated performance and scalability work: profiling, query optimization, caching strategy, or load testing.
- Experience with feature flags and progressive delivery (canary releases, dark launches, trunk-based development).
- Familiarity with static analysis, code quality, and dependency/security scanning tooling (e.g., SonarQube, SAST, SCA).
- Experience modernizing or retiring legacy systems, including incremental migration approaches such as strangler-fig.
- Experience integrating third-party vendor APIs, including handling vendor migrations.
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience, especially entitlements, tiered packaging, or role-based access control.
- Domain experience in two-sided marketplaces, logistics, transportation, or automotive.
- Experience with resiliency practices such as game days, chaos exercises, or documented runbooks.
- Experience mentoring engineers or interns, and participating in hiring and interview loops.
USD 101,500.00 - 169,100.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $101,500.00 - $169,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
EOE, including disability/vets
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years of related experience; alternatively, a master's degree and 2 years, a Ph.D. and 1 year, or 12 years of related experience without a degree.
- Professional experience designing, building, and maintaining production software in a modern object-oriented language such as C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript, Python, or C++.
- Strong command of object-oriented design fundamentals, including encapsulation, composition, interface design, SOLID, dependency injection, and common design patterns.
- Experience delivering software in microservice or service-oriented architectures, including service boundaries, API versioning, and distributed failure handling.
- Experience designing and consuming HTTP/REST APIs or gRPC/GraphQL equivalents, including contract design, backward compatibility, and authentication and authorization patterns.
- Proficiency with relational databases, including schema design, indexing, query tuning, transactions, and managed schema migrations.
- Experience with asynchronous and message-driven processing using queues, topics, or event streams.
- Experience building and operating services in a public cloud environment, including containerized workloads.
- Demonstrated automated testing across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers through a CI/CD pipeline.
- Proficiency with Git-based workflows and substantive code review.
- Experience with production support and observability, including structured logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and live incident triage.
- Senior-level ownership of ambiguous problems through design, implementation, and release; ability to decompose work and raise engineering standards.
- Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working in an Agile or iterative delivery model.
- Availability to participate in a rotating on-call schedule, including support outside regular business hours.
- Comfort with AI-assisted development tooling.
- Hands-on experience with C# and .NET, including ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core.
- Front-end experience with React and TypeScript, including component patterns, state management, and component or end-to-end testing.
- Production experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
- Experience using Redis for caching, distributed locking, or rate limiting.
- AWS experience with ECS/Fargate, RDS, SQS/SNS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation, and Docker experience.
- Familiarity with distributed system patterns including outbox, saga, compensating transactions, eventual consistency, and idempotent consumers.
- Experience with performance and scalability improvements, including profiling, query optimization, caching, or load testing.
- Experience with feature flags and progressive delivery, including canary releases, dark launches, or trunk-based development.
- Familiarity with static analysis, code quality, dependency scanning, and security scanning tools such as SonarQube, SAST, or SCA.
- Experience modernizing or retiring legacy systems through incremental migration approaches such as strangler-fig.
- Experience integrating third-party vendor APIs and managing vendor migrations.
- Multi-tenant SaaS experience, including entitlements, tiered packaging, or role-based access control.
- Domain experience in marketplaces, logistics, transportation, or automotive.
- Experience with resiliency practices such as game days, chaos exercises, or documented runbooks.
- Experience mentoring engineers or interns and participating in hiring and interview loops.
What the Team is Saying
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Manager of Network Automation
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Director of Agile Delivery
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Manager of Engineering Support & Delivery
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Cox Enterprises Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as robust with multiple medical plan options (PPOs and an HSA‑eligible HDHP), in‑network preventive care at 100%, and expanded mental health and virtual care access. Specialized offerings such as fertility benefits, gender‑affirming care, and wellness programs (e.g., Calm, FitnessOnDemand, Hinge Health) further bolster breadth.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) program features an enhanced employer contribution for most newer hires—dollar‑for‑dollar matching up to 6% and an automatic 2% contribution after 90 days, with legacy formulas for earlier hire dates. Financial tools and student‑debt support via Candidly deepen long‑term savings support.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of eight weeks, adoption assistance (up to $5,000 per adoption), and resources like backup care and childcare discounts are highlighted. Family‑building and caregiving supports (e.g., fertility coverage, Milk Stork, Care.com access) are emphasized across materials.
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What We Do
Cox Enterprises is a family-owned enterprise spanning 125+ years of innovation. Through our diverse network of businesses, our people are shaping the future with bold thinking, cutting-edge technology and an unwavering commitment to doing what’s right. Across a range of industries — including automotive, agriculture, cleantech, journalism and more — we’re building a better future for this generation and the next. Make your mark at Cox!
Why Work With Us
Founded in 1898, Cox Enterprises is a community of kind, grounded individuals who work together to drive positive change across vital industries. At Cox, employees experience meaningful work, great benefits, work-life balance and a supportive team environment, plus ample opportunities for career growth across our family of businesses.
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