Sr Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive base salary

Job summary

Cox Automotive is seeking a Sr Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and operate secure software and cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate across teams to translate business requirements into scalable solutions, focusing on delivery value with Agile practices.

Responsibilities include API design, microservices, and observability, with a strong emphasis on performance, security, and maintainability. Hybrid work arrangement available; visa sponsorship not provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with 4+ years' experience or equivalent.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining production software in OO languages.
• Experience in microservices, REST/gRPC APIs, and cloud deployments.
• Strong OO design, patterns, and testing with CI/CD delivery.
• Proficient in relational databases and asynchronous messaging.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain secure, scalable software and cloud infra.
• Collaborate across teams to align architecture with business needs.
• Design APIs, ensure backward compatibility, and implement observability.
• Deliver software in an agile environment with continuous improvement.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident triage when needed.

Skills

C#

Java

TypeScript

Python

Go

C++

Microservices

Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Job description

Company Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Engineering / Product Development

Job Profile

Sr Software Engineer

Management Level

Individual Contributor

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel % No

Work Shift Day

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $101,500.00 - $169,100.00. 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.

Cox Automotive is looking for a senior software engineer 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 when not to 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.
• This role may require participation in a rotating on-call schedule, including support outside of regular business hours.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Comfort with AI-assisted development tooling as part of a normal workflow.
• Hands-on experience with C# and .NET (modern .NET, ASP.NET Core, 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