Cox Enterprises

Senior Software Engineer – Reliability Engineering

Cox Enterprises

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: AtlantaArizonaCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $101,500 - $169,100 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Build automation that reduces toil and empowers engineering teams
  • Create tools and platforms that help teams understand and improve their system reliability
  • Reimagine how we learn from incidents and turn insights into preventive measures
  • Experiment with new approaches to observability, monitoring, and alerting
  • Bring your engineering expertise to complex production challenges
  • Explore how AI can transform incident detection, triage, and response
  • Partner with teams across the organization to review & analyze incidents and solve reliability problems at scale
  • Drive technical conversations that shape how Cox Automotive builds resilient systems
  • Turn operational pain points into engineering opportunities
  • Define what modern incident response engineering looks like for our organization

Requirements

  • Professional experience with static languages (Java, C#, Go) and dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, JavaScript) and understand the tradeoffs of each
  • Distributed systems expertise and understanding of failure modes
  • Experience building internal platforms , developer tools, or automation that scales
  • Git/version control and CI/CD pipeline experience
  • Infrastructure as code and API design experience
  • Track record eliminating toil through intelligent automation
  • Production ownership experience (on-call, incident response, observability)
  • Systems thinking mindset —understanding how components interact at scale
  • Eager to dig into problems and bring proposed solutions to group discussion
  • Open to feedback and able to creatively adapt multiple ideas into solutions
  • Strong technical writing including high and low-level diagramming techniques
  • Analytical skills and careful attention to detail
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 4 years’ experience in a related field
  • The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 2 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years’ experience in a related field.
Benefits
  • The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations
  • Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
  • Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
  • Additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave
  • Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • Retirement planning (401(k))
  • Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
JavaC#GoPythonRubyJavaScriptdistributed systemsinfrastructure as codeAPI designautomation
Soft skills
systems thinkinganalytical skillsattention to detailstrong technical writingproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaborationcreativitycommunicationfeedback receptiveness
Certifications
Bachelor’s degreeMaster’s degreePh.D.