Software Engineer II - 20269

Cox Automotive; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 134,000; Full time

Job summary

Cox Automotive is seeking a Software Engineer II to apply secure software principles across design, development, testing, and cloud infrastructure. You will work cross-functionally to translate business requirements into scalable solutions, focusing on secure, resilient, and user-friendly systems while delivering value in an Agile environment.

The role emphasizes modern OO development, microservices, cloud workloads, and strong collaboration with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field, or equivalent combinations.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining production software in an OO language (C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript, Python, C++).
• Strong object-oriented design fundamentals with knowledge of when to apply patterns.
• Experience delivering software in a microservice/service-oriented architecture with API versioning and failure handling.
• Experience designing and consuming HTTP/REST APIs (or gRPC/GraphQL) with auth patterns.
• Proficiency with relational databases (design, indexing, migrations).
• Experience with asynchronous processing using queues or event streams.
• Experience building/operating services in a public cloud with containerized workloads.
• Automated testing across unit/integration/e2e with a CI/CD pipeline.
• Proficiency with Git-based workflows and code review as a regular practice.
• Experience with production support and observability: logging, metrics, tracing, alerts.

Responsibilities

Skills

C#

Java

TypeScript

Python

C++

Go

Kotlin

Microservices

REST APIs

Git workflows

CI/CD

Cloud / containerized workloads

Agile

Security practices

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

AWS (ECS/Fargate, RDS, SQS/SNS, S3, Lambda)

Terraform / CloudFormation / CDK

Job description

Company Cox Automotive - USA Job Family Group Engineering / Product Development Job Profile Software Engineer II Management Level Individual Contributor Flexible Work Option Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week Travel % No Work Shift Day

Compensation Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $89,400.00 - $134,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Summary:

Cox Automotive is looking for a software engineer II that applies the principles of secure software engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing and evaluation of software and cloud infrastructure. Works cross functionally to understand business requirements, architecture and technology direction, evaluate alternative approaches and ensure software and systems are designed accordingly. Incorporates state-of-the-art concepts and practices to facilitate system functionality, scalability, resilience and security as well as ease-of-use (developer / user experience). Applies agile principles to software development with a focus on delivery of business value, collaboration, continuous improvement and sustainability.

Visa Sponsorship: Cox Automotive is unable to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position, candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Required Qualifications:

• 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 12 years' experience in a related field with no degree.
• Professional experience designing, building, and maintaining production software in a modern object-oriented language (e.g., C#, Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript, Python, C++).
• Strong command of object-oriented design fundamentals - encapsulation, composition, interface design, SOLID, dependency injection, and common design patterns - with the judgment to know whennotto apply them.
• Experience delivering software in a microservice or service-oriented architecture, including defining service boundaries, versioning APIs, and handling distributed failure modes (timeouts, retries, idempotency, partial failure).
• Experience designing and consuming HTTP/REST APIs (or gRPC/GraphQL equivalents), including contract design, backward compatibility, and authentication/authorization patterns.
• Proficiency with relational databases: schema design, indexing, query tuning, transactions, and managed schema migrations.
• Experience with asynchronous and message-driven processing using queues, topics, or event streams.
• Experience building and operating services in a public cloud environment, including containerized workloads.
• Demonstrated automated testing discipline across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers, with work delivered through a CI/CD pipeline.
• Proficiency with Git-based workflows and code review as a routine part of delivery - both giving and receiving substantive feedback.
• Experience with production support and observability: structured logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and triaging live incidents.
• Track record of senior-level ownership: taking ambiguous problems through design, implementation, and release; decomposing work for others; and raising engineering standards on a team.
• Clear written and verbal communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in an Agile or iterative delivery model.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with C# and .NET (modern .NET,ASP.NETCore, Entity Framework Core).
• Front-end experience with React and TypeScript, including modern component patterns, state management, and component/E2E testing.
• Production experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
• Experience using Redis for caching, distributed locking, or rate limiting, including cache invalidation strategy.
• AWS experience, particularly ECS/Fargate, RDS, SQS/SNS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation) and Docker.
• Familiarity with distributed system patterns such as outbox, saga/compensating transactions, eventual consistency, and idempotent consumers.
• Demonstrated performance and scalability work: profiling, query optimization, caching strategy, or load testing.
• Experience with feature flags and progressive delivery (canary releases, dark launches, trunk-based development).
• Familiarity with static analysis, code quality, and dependency/security scanning tooling (e.g., SonarQube, SAST, SCA).
• Experience modernizing or retiring legacy systems, including incremental migration approaches such as strangler-fig.
• Experience integrating third-party vendor A