Senior Software Engineer

About the role

Cox Automotive is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep DevOps expertise to operate at the Release Train level, partnering across approximately 14 engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams across the Release Train to identify gaps in DevOps maturity and drive targeted improvements.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot cross-functional production service issues.
• Define and champion standards, patterns, and best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure, cloud, and containerization - making it easy for teams to do the right thing.
• Act as a force multiplier: guide teams to implement solutions themselves rather than creating dependency on the DevOps function.
• Collaborate with your DevOps peer to ensure consistent tooling, shared practices, and coordinated delivery across teams.
• Identify systemic friction points across the Release Train and drive cross-team alignment to resolve them.
• Contribute to roadmaps, standards documentation, and community of practice forums that scale DevOps knowledge organization-wide.
• Evaluate and recommend tooling improvements that reduce toil and increase developer productivity.

Requirements

• 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 8 years' experience in a related field with no degree.
• Proven ability to influence outcomes across multiple teams without direct authority - a natural coach and collaborator.
• Deep experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines at scale (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GHE) and a solid understanding of cloud-native patterns.
• Proficiency with container orchestration technologies, particularly Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CDK.
• Strong ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to engineers and non-engineers alike.
• A systems thinker who looks for root causes and scalable solutions rather than one-off fixes.

Qualifications

• Nice to have:
• Experience working within a SAFe or Agile Release Train structure.
• Familiarity with developer experience (DevEx) principles and inner-loop optimization.
• Background in platform or enabling team models (e.g. Team Topologies).
• Experience building or contributing to internal developer platforms.

Skills

• Core technologies: CI/CD (Jenkins / GitHub Actions), AWS, Terraform, CDK, Docker, Git.

Benefits

• Flexible vacation policy.
• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• 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.

Pay

$101,500.00 - $169,100.00 per year

Schedule

Not specified