Hybrid Senior Reliability Engineer – Cloud & Observability

Cox Automotive; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work option

Incentive program

Job summary

Cox Automotive in the USA is seeking 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: architecture → code → deployment → production. You'll split time between infrastructure-as-code, incident response, system improvements, and mentoring; work on a team

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; or master's/PhD variants acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement SRE best practices and system health management.
• Build observability into systems with logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerts.
• Drive AWS cost optimization through architectural improvements and resource utilization.
• Develop production-grade software and architecture with emphasis on reliability and maintainability.
• Participate in on-call rotations; debug and resolve production incidents; document postmortems.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

System design

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Cox Automotive in the USA is seeking 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: architecture → code → deployment → production. You'll split time between infrastructure-as-code, incident response, system improvements, and mentoring; work on a team