Job description
Who we are
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.
What we do
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!
Role overview
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.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and operate the Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS with a focus on reliability, security, and developer ergonomics (multi‑env, multi‑region).
- Advance our Controller/Operator and deployment model to provide consistent, self‑service delivery across repositories and environments.
- Lead critical upgrades and rollouts: Kubernetes, Rancher, and routine add‑on upgrades utilizing ArgoCD and HCP Terraform.
- Drive autoscaling and cost/performance wins by partnering with product teams to adopt autoscaling practices and supporting policies/templates that balance efficiency and performance.
- Raise platform reliability by hardening alerting/runbooks and participating in our on‑call rotation with sensible, business‑hours expectations and documented handoffs.
- Explore and implement service connectivity improvements (e.g., service discovery/mesh) to simplify developer configuration and reduce operational toil.
What you’ll bring
- 4+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer in a professional setting
- Proficiency with containerization and cloud environments.
- Deep Kubernetes/EKS experience operating production workloads at scale.
- Strong Go (or equivalent) systems programming skills; familiarity with controller/operator patterns is a plus.
- AWS fluency across core primitives (networking, IAM, load balancing, storage) and platform guardrails.
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub‑based workflows) and CI/CD automation.
- Observability and SRE mindset: metrics, tracing, logging, SLOs, incident response, and post‑incident learning.
- Security‑by‑default bent: policy‑as‑code (e.g., Kyverno), least‑privilege, image/runtime controls.
- Developer empathy and clear communication; you enjoy building paved roads that hundreds of engineers can rely on.
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Position Pay Range
$140,000—$176,000 USD
Working at CarGurus
We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.
We welcome all
CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid
