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Cloud Engineer

Cars.com
Full-time
Remote
United States
$101,100 - $126,400 USD yearly

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.

  

About the Role 

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 ready-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 Engineer for our expanding native cloud platform.

In this role you will be supporting projects, collaborating with your team, and raising operational standards.  You will be instrumental in helping us build and maintain systems that deliver value to our customers. You believe in quality and accountability.  You have experience in infrastructure-as-code & containerization, including experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS).  You’ve supported production systems, and have experience implementing infrastructure-as-code, ideally using Terraform. You are a reliable contributor on your team and have a track record of completing work on time and to specification. You have a desire to learn and the ability to be curious. You are driven by gaining knowledge and growing your career.

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

  • Follow and improve best practices on your team, aligning to industry standards

  • Collaborate with team to divide up work, pair on projects, and deliver following Agile practices

  • Document, build, and support cloud infrastructure for new and existing applications within AWS

  • Help build operational readiness and maturity into team culture

  • Provide quality documentation 

  • Build and maintain monitoring and dashboards to drive data driven discovery and monitoring of systems

  • Execute routine maintenance and auditing 

  • Participate in 24/7 on-call support of AWS cloud infrastructure (as needed)

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent practical experience

  • 2+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience on AWS 

  • 1+ years of total experience contributing to design and architecture (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

  • Experience programming with at least one language such as Elixir, Golang, C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, Ruby, SQL, Bash

  • Experience with AWS infrastructure tools (EKS, OpenSearch, S3, RDS, API gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53, VPC) 

  • Experience with container orchestration solutions (Docker/Kubernetes)

  • Knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)

  • 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 using common source control tools

  • Experience in a high-availability environment 

  • Familiarity with DNS, Web Traffic Routing, and CDNs (Cloudfront, Akamai, Cloudflare)

  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code orchestration tools (Terraform and Terragrunt)

  • Understanding of CI/CD and deployment toolchains 

  • Solid written and verbal communication skills

  • Able to understand ambiguous business problems related to your work and resolve them with input from team members.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience implementing and supporting high traffic (millions of daily visits) applications and services running on AWS

  • Ability to learn and adapt quickly to changing technologies and standards

  • Growing track record of delivering results

  • AWS certifications at the associate level or equivalent training

Salary Range

$101,100.00-126,400.00

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

  • Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
  • New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
  • Generous PTO
  • Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
  • Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day

Learn more about our Benefits, Perks, & Culture on our LinkedIn Life Pages!

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