Principal DevX Architect: AI Tools, Auth & AWS

CarGurus; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for all employees

Hybrid work model

Daily free lunch

New car discount

Commuting cost coverage

Job summary

CarGurus is seeking an experienced developer-focused architect to shape the Developer Experience Architecture team. You will standardize AI agentic development, evolve authentication and identity platforms, and improve service and job creation on AWS.

You will own projects and collaborate with engineers and product managers across the org, with a focus on delivering high-impact, scalable solutions. You will work on cross-cutting problems, including Claude Code, plugin marketplace, and MCP

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of hands-on, fullstack software design and development, including at least five years of Java.
• Experience building performant, large-scale web applications and cloud-native systems on AWS or similar cloud providers.
• Working knowledge of authentication and identity standards (OAuth2/OIDC), or a strong appetite to learn them.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship developer tooling, core frameworks, and reusable templates that raise engineering productivity and quality.
• Advance our agentic development ecosystem: Claude Code configuration and governance, plugins and skills, and MCP servers.
• Strengthen the Auth service and agent identity model using Keycloak, OAuth2, and OIDC.
• Build and operate services with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Define standards, guardrails, and best practices, then drive adoption across product teams.
• Continuously assess, root cause, and improve system reliability and performance.

Skills

Java

React

Node.js

Remix

Terraform

AWS

OAuth2/OIDC

AI coding tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

CarGurus is seeking an experienced developer-focused architect to shape the Developer Experience Architecture team. You will standardize AI agentic development, evolve authentication and identity platforms, and improve service and job creation on AWS.

You will own projects and collaborate with engineers and product managers across the org, with a focus on delivering high-impact, scalable solutions. You will work on cross-cutting problems, including Claude Code, plugin marketplace, and MCP