Senior Software Engineer - Secure Cloud & Microservices

Cox Enterprises; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive is seeking a senior software engineer who applies secure software engineering principles to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate software and cloud infrastructure. The role works cross-functionally to understand business requirements, architecture and technology direction, and to ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and easy to use.

Candidates should have strong OO design, experience with microservices, REST/gRPC, cloud services, CI/CD, and good communication, with a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with related field experience.
• Proven experience delivering production software in an OO language (e.g., C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript, Python, C++).
• Strong OO design fundamentals — encapsulation, composition, interface design, SOLID, DI, patterns.
• Experience with microservices, API design, and distributed systems.
• Designing REST/GraphQL or gRPC APIs with good security and backward compatibility.
• Proficiency with relational databases and migrations.
• Experience with asynchronous processing and cloud/container workloads.
• CI/CD and automated testing in a modern stack; strong code review habits.
• Excellent communication with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotation in Agile delivery.

Skills

OO design

REST/GraphQL APIs

Microservices

Unit testing

CI/CD

Git workflows

On-call ownership

Effective communication

Agile delivery

Security-focused development

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline

Master’s degree in related field

Ph.D. in related field

12 years’ experience in a related field with no degree

Tools

Docker

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL/MySQL

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Cox Automotive is seeking a senior software engineer who applies secure software engineering principles to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate software and cloud infrastructure. The role works cross-functionally to understand business requirements, architecture and technology direction, and to ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and easy to use.

Candidates should have strong OO design, experience with microservices, REST/gRPC, cloud services, CI/CD, and good communication, with a