Be essential at Cars Commerce
At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.
No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.
But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.
Cars Commerce builds solutions for automotive dealerships, manufacturers, and consumers. Our driving force is to deliver one platform to simplify everything about buying and selling cars. Our platform enables dealerships and OEMs with innovative technical solutions and data-driven intelligence to better reach and influence eady-to-buy shoppers, increase inventory turn and gain market share. To support the growth and tighter integration of our existing brands like Cars.com, Dealer Inspire, and Accu-Trade we are seeking a passionate and innovative Senior Engineer for our expanding native cloud platform.
In this role you will be leading projects, collaborating with your team, and raising operational standards. You will be instrumental in helping us design and maintain systems that deliver value to our customers. You’ll lead by example, elevating your team as they implement and maintain systems. You have a strong background in Infrastructure as Code & containerization, including a significant amount of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS). You’ve spent multiple years supporting & scaling production systems, and have experience implementing infrastructure-as-code, ideally using Terraform.
This role is positioned within our Cloud Engineering team and works closely with our various Product Engineering teams to collaborate on new projects, operate and maintain the existing platform, and look ahead to what is in the future with AWS.
Responsibilities
- Deliver work to completion
- Incrementally breakdown and manage work for yourself and at times the team to complete our highest priority projects
- Recognize and demonstrate the ability to see how day to day work maps to the big picture company goals and adapt work accordingly
- Partner with stakeholders for requirements and prioritization
- Document, build, and support cloud infrastructure for new and existing applications within AWS
- Build operational maturity and readiness into team culture
- Establish and document standards and procedures for team and organization wide initiatives
- Build and maintain monitoring and dashboards to drive data driven discovery and monitoring of systems
- Build tooling to proactively detect problems and mechanisms to solve them before they become emergencies
- Proactively plan and execute routine maintenance and auditing
- On-call support of AWS cloud infrastructure
- Design, document, and maintain our cloud infrastructure via Infrastructure-as-Code
- Improve operational tasks via automation
- Be an ambassador of Cars.com's Core Values:
- Challenge & Collaborate; Start with the Consumer; Be Bold; Build Relationships, Deliver Results; Focus on the Outcome; Stay Open
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience on AWS
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Demonstrated experience with AWS infrastructure tools (EKS, OpenSearch, S3, RDS, API gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53, VPC)
- Demonstrated experience with container orchestration solutions (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Thorough knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
- Demonstrated experience programming with at least one language such as Elixir, Golang, C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, Ruby, SQL
- Extensive experience using modern monitoring tools (Cloudwatch, DataDog, etc) and establishing metrics, monitoring, alarming, and dashboards
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, SRE concepts and best practices
- Experience in a high-availability environment
- Experience with DNS, Web Traffic Routing, and CDNs (Cloudfront, Akamai, Cloudflare)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) orchestration tools (Terraform and Terragrunt)
- Understanding of CI/CD and deployment toolchains
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent practical experience required
- Ability and willingness to manage ambiguity i.e., help shape solutions and prioritize deliverables to align with the Company’s vision
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience implementing and supporting high traffic (millions of daily visits) applications and services running on AWS
- Strong track record of delivering results for large scale systems
- Strong mentoring skills
- Ability to be a force multiplier for the team that shares knowledge and supports skill growth across the team
- Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in AWS using Terraform
- Ability to recognize silos of skills and responsibilities and break them down to shared responsibilities
- AWS Certifications
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In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position which is not inclusive of bonuses, benefits or other forms of compensation that the position may be eligible for. If you are hired at Cars Commerce, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills and/or experience. If the salary range is close to what you're seeking, then we encourage you to apply and learn more about the total compensation package for this position.
Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:
- Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
- 401(k) with Company Match + Immediate Vesting
- New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Generous PTO
- Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day
- Learn more about our Benefits, Perks, & Culture on our LinkedIn Life Pages!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. California Applicants: Click here to review our California Privacy Policy for Applicants. For current employees, please click here to review our California Privacy Policy for Employees.
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