Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineering & Platform
Cox AutomotiveResponsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable data pipelines, data products, and platform capabilities.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science teams on technical strategy and delivery.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for cloud-native data platforms and services.
- Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence, ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices across the team.
- Drive platform modernization through self-service workflows, containerized execution models, and AI-enabled data capabilities.
- Support reliable, high-performance data solutions across architecture, design, development, and operations.
- Participate in rotational on-call duties outside standard business hours when required.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree and 6 years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 4 years, a Ph.D. and 1 year, or 18 years of related experience.
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related technical fields.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale data platforms and distributed systems.
- Strong experience with cloud-based application development, support, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Advanced object-oriented design experience with design patterns and architectural best practices.
- Ability to lead technical initiatives, influence engineering direction, and complete projects successfully.
- Extensive database development experience, including data warehousing, data modeling, database technologies, and performance optimization.
- Experience mentoring engineers and conducting design reviews.
- Preferred experience with AI/ML workflows, feature engineering, model data preparation, vector databases, LLM integration, RAG, prompt engineering, MLOps, model deployment, data lineage, observability, and responsible AI governance.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship; OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT, and visa sponsorship are not accepted.
About Cox Automotive
Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services and technology provider. Fueled by the largest breadth of first- and third-party data fed by 2.3 billion online interactions a year, Cox Automotive tailors leading solutions for car shoppers, auto manufacturers, dealers, lenders and fleets. The company has 29,000+ employees on four continents and a portfolio of industry-leading brands that include Autotrader®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, vAuto®, Dealertrack®, NextGear Capital™, CentralDispatch® and Cox Fleet®. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately owned, Atlanta-based company with $23 billion in annual revenue. Cox Automotive has been included on Glassdoor’s Best Companies in Tech & AI 2026 and Best Place to Work in 2026 lists.