Lead Senior Software Engineer – Platform Engineering

November 25

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Cars Commerce

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eCommerce • Automotive • Marketplace

Cars Commerce is a comprehensive online platform that facilitates the buying, selling, and research of vehicles. It provides a wide range of listings for new and used cars, along with tools and resources for customers to compare different makes and models, read reviews, and obtain financing options. With a focus on enhancing the car shopping experience, Cars Commerce connects sellers with local dealers and offers estimates for vehicle sales, ensuring a streamlined process for prospective buyers and sellers alike.

1001 - 5000 employees

🛍️ eCommerce

🏪 Marketplace

📋 Description

• Join us in shaping the future of Automotive Commerce with our marketplace platform - Cars.com. • Collaborate closely with Engineering Leadership to translate bold infrastructure goals into reliable, scalable platforms. • Drive best-in-class engineering practices around scalability, observability, security, and reliability in your daily work. • Design and Build Strategic Platform Infrastructure: Lead the design and development of systems that speed delivery and enhance the engineer experience, making strategic architectural decisions that meet SLOs and scale with long-term growth. • Define Technical Strategy: Analyze the current state, anticipate future challenges, and shape the platform engineering roadmap. • Build Developer Tooling: Build internal platforms that boost developer productivity, reduce friction, and enable self-service for web and mobile teams, directly elevating engineering velocity and satisfaction across the organization. • Implement Platform Best Practices: Champion and implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, observability, and security practices to ensure production systems remain reliable, visible, and secure throughout the development lifecycle. • Drive Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Partner with Cloud and Product Engineering teams to create clear, comprehensive documentation for platform designs, architectures, and operations, enabling teams to easily build on and integrate with platform services in a self-service way. • Champion Operational Excellence: Drive standardization and evangelize best practices for production support, incident response, and leveraging metrics/data to evaluate operational health.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with exposure to platform engineering, designing and implementing technology platforms optimized for resilient, scalable, and highly available applications built with languages that leverage VMs for execution (Elixir/Erlang, Java, Ruby, etc..) • Proven experience building CI/CD systems for web and mobile applications using modern technologies • Expert with AWS services and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying, monitoring, and scaling applications in production • Deep expertise with Linux operating systems, and experience debugging and optimizing VMs used for programming language execution. • Strong programming skills in one or more languages, with a demonstrated ability to write maintainable, extensible code and experience setting team style guides and architectural best practices. • Extensive experience building platforms and tools that enable developer efficiency, security, compliance, and observability across web and mobile applications • Experience with DevSecOps practices, release planning, defining operational metrics/alerts/runbooks/best practices, building debugging tooling, and leading incident responses within an on-call rotation • Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and experience mentoring individuals both formally and informally.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans • New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up • Generous PTO • Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset • Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day