Hybrid Senior Software Engineer – Reliability Engineering

at Cox Enterprises

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer – Reliability Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $101,500 - $169,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Atlanta, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer building automation platforms for incident response at Cox Automotive. Focusing on AI-driven reliability solutions and engineering collaboration within the team.

Responsibilities

• 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)