Platform Engineer II
Cox AutomotiveResponsibilities
- Design and implement GraphQL APIs and subgraphs with Apollo Federation.
- Contribute to supergraph schema design, evolution, backward compatibility, and API governance.
- Develop Apollo router-based infrastructure, routing workflows, multi-tenant routing, and Apollo contracts.
- Build and maintain schema-validation and governance pipelines.
- Support telemetry, data capture, analytics integrations, and distributed-system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Collaborate with teams to onboard and integrate new enterprise data sources.
- Participate in rotational on-call duties outside standard business hours when required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and two years of related experience, or an alternative combination including a master’s degree with up to two years of experience or 14 years of related experience.
- Strong backend development skills in Python.
- Experience building and consuming REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Familiarity with AWS and container-based deployments.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern development practices.
- Preferred experience with GraphQL, Apollo Federation, API gateways or routing layers such as Kong, distributed systems, observability, telemetry, S3, Snowflake, API governance, and schema design.
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.