Senior Software Engineer: Cloud, Microservices & Security

Cox Communications; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Seven paid holidays

Wellness days (up to 160 hours)

Bereavement leave

Job summary

Cox Automotive is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop and secure software and cloud infrastructure. You’ll work cross-functionally to understand requirements, architecture, and direction, delivering scalable, resilient solutions in an Agile setting.

The role emphasizes production-ready code, API designs and strong OO principles, with on-call rotation and collaboration with product teams. Hybrid work options are available in the US.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with 4 years’ experience, or a master’s degree with 2 years, or equivalent.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining production software in OO languages (C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript, Python, C++).
• Strong object-oriented design fundamentals — encapsulation, composition, interfaces, SOLID, DI, and patterns.
• Experience delivering software in a microservice/SOA environment with API versioning, timeouts, retries, idempotency.
• Experience designing and consuming HTTP/REST APIs (or gRPC/GraphQL) including auth patterns.
• Proficiency with relational databases: design, indexing, queries, transactions, migrations.
• Experience with asynchronous/messaging processing using queues or event streams.
• Experience building services in a public cloud with containerized workloads.
• Automated testing across unit/integration/e2e with CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with Git-based workflows and code reviews.
• Production support and observability: logging, metrics, tracing, alerts.
• Senior ownership: design, implementation, release; mentor and hire involvement.
• Clear communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in Agile delivery; on-call rotation may be required.

Responsibilities

• Apply secure software engineering principles to design, develop, test and evaluate software and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to understand requirements, architecture, and technology direction.
• Ensure software is scalable, resilient, secure and user-friendly for developers and end users.
• Apply Agile practices with focus on delivering business value and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and drive improvements in engineering standards.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response as needed.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and interview processes.

Skills

C++

C#

Java

TypeScript

Python

Go

OO Design

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Master's degree

PhD in related field

Tools

AWS

Docker

Terraform

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Kubernetes

Git & CI/CD

SQS/SNS

Job description

Cox Automotive is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop and secure software and cloud infrastructure. You’ll work cross-functionally to understand requirements, architecture, and direction, delivering scalable, resilient solutions in an Agile setting.

The role emphasizes production-ready code, API designs and strong OO principles, with on-call rotation and collaboration with product teams. Hybrid work options are available in the US.