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The Role
Design, build, and operate reliable infrastructure and observability tooling across the stack. Own IaC, incident response, monitoring, cost optimization, and production systems. Mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, run postmortems, and drive reliability and operational excellence for a high-volume platform.
Summary Generated by Built In
We're hiring a Sr. Software Engineer - Reliability Engineer who can code across the stack and cares deeply about reliability. You'll design and build infrastructure, observability tooling, and operational systems-treating resilience and debuggability as first-class concerns. You'll own projects end-to-end: from architecture code deployment production. You'll split time between infrastructure-as-code, incident response, system improvements, and mentoring. You'll work on a team that ships quality systems while maintaining operational excellence across a platform serving millions of dealership transactions daily.
What You'll Do:
SRE Best Practices & System Health Management
Application Monitoring & Observability
AWS Cost Optimization
Software Development & Architecture
Operations & Incident Response
Qualifications:
Highly Valued:
USD 121,800.00 - 203,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $121,800.00 - $203,000.00. 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
What You'll Do:
SRE Best Practices & System Health Management
- Design and implement resilience initiatives: redundancy, failover, disaster recovery, data protection.
- Write infrastructure-as-code (Terraform); manage 50+ AWS accounts with infrastructure patterns.
- Own system health: proactively maintain application performance, minimize downtime, ensure consistent user experience.
- Evolve team's SRE standards and practices.
Application Monitoring & Observability
- Build observability into systems: logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alert design.
- Improve monitoring frameworks; enable faster incident detection and resolution.
- Design dashboards and alerts that help teams understand system behavior.
- Partner with application teams on service instrumentation.
AWS Cost Optimization
- Drive significant reductions in cloud spend through architectural improvements and resource utilization.
- Review infrastructure for efficiency; identify and eliminate waste.
- Balance cost, performance, and reliability in design decisions.
Software Development & Architecture
- Build production systems, APIs, internal tools, and automation with clean, well-tested code.
- Design for maintainability, operational simplicity, and reliability.
- Participate in code review and technical design discussions.
- Mentor junior engineers on code quality and architectural thinking.
Operations & Incident Response
- Participate in on-call rotations; debug and resolve production incidents.
- Conduct postmortem analysis; drive systemic improvements.
- Develop operational procedures and runbooks.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong coding in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent; writes clean, testable code.
- AWS hands-on: EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Lambda, VPCs, Athena.
- Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar).
- Debugging on Linux and Windows platforms; able to troubleshoot complex systems using logs, metrics, and architectural knowledge.
- System design thinking: can architect scalable systems and reason about trade-offs.
- Availability for rotational on-call duties outside of standard business hours may be required.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field.
Highly Valued:
- Experience with observability tools (New Relic, Splunk, Prometheus).
- Incident response experience; familiar with postmortem practices.
- Interest in or hands-on experience with SRE concepts (SLOs, resilience, failure modes).
- Cost optimization mindset; has identified and eliminated cloud waste.
- Windows and Linux system troubleshooting and performance analysis.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
USD 121,800.00 - 203,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $121,800.00 - $203,000.00. 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
- 5+ years software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience.
- Strong coding in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent; writes clean, testable code.
- Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Lambda, VPCs, Athena).
- Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code experience.
- Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes or similar).
- Debugging on Linux and Windows platforms; troubleshoot complex systems using logs and metrics.
- System design thinking; architect scalable systems and reason about trade-offs.
- Availability for rotational on-call duties outside standard business hours.
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline (or equivalent combinations of education and experience as described).
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage is presented as robust, with multiple plan options, in‑network preventive care covered in full, and added programs for telehealth, mental health, and chronic conditions. Materials also highlight ongoing enhancements and vendor partnerships that broaden access and support.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building benefits are emphasized, including paid parental leave, fertility support via specialized partners, adoption assistance, lactation resources, and childcare discounts. Feedback suggests these offerings help employees navigate key life stages with practical support.
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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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