Senior Software Development Engineer, DevX Platform as a Service

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who we are</strong></p> <p>At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.</p> <p><strong>What we do</strong></p> <p>The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!</p></div><p><strong>Role overview</strong></p> <p>The DevX Platform as a Service team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer. The DevX PaaS team builds and operates CarGurus’ Kubernetes-based developer platform that enables product teams to ship quickly, reliably, and at scale. We’re a sub‑team within Developer Experience in Engineering Platform, partnering across engineering to remove friction, modernize our stack, and accelerate time‑to‑market.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and operate the Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS with a focus on reliability, security, and developer ergonomics (multi‑env, multi‑region).</li> <li>Advance our Controller/Operator and deployment model to provide consistent, self‑service delivery across repositories and environments.</li> <li>Lead critical upgrades and rollouts: Kubernetes, Rancher, and routine add‑on upgrades utilizing ArgoCD and HCP Terraform.</li> <li>Drive autoscaling and cost/performance wins by partnering with product teams to adopt autoscaling practices and supporting policies/templates that balance efficiency and performance.</li> <li>Raise platform reliability by hardening alerting/runbooks and participating in our on‑call rotation with sensible, business‑hours expectations and documented handoffs.</li> <li>Explore and implement service connectivity improvements (e.g., service discovery/mesh) to simplify developer configuration and reduce operational toil.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll bring</strong></p> <ul> <li>4+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer in a professional setting</li> <li>Proficiency with containerization and cloud environments.</li> <li>Deep Kubernetes/EKS experience operating production workloads at scale.</li> <li>Strong Go (or equivalent) systems programming skills; familiarity with controller/operator patterns is a plus.</li> <li>AWS fluency across core primitives (networking, IAM, load balancing, storage) and platform guardrails.</li> <li>Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub‑based workflows) and CI/CD automation.</li> <li>Observability and SRE mindset: metrics, tracing, logging, SLOs, incident response, and post‑incident learning.</li> <li>Security‑by‑default bent: policy‑as‑code (e.g., Kyverno), least‑privilege, image/runtime controls.</li> <li>Developer empathy and clear communication; you enjoy building paved roads that hundreds of engineers can rely on.</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><span data-sheets-root="1">The displayed range represents the expected annual base salary / On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this position. On-Target Earnings (OTE) is inclusive of base salary and on-target commission earnings, which applies exclusively to sal ... (truncated, view full listing at source)