Lead Software Engineer - Data Engineering & Platform
Cox Enterprises, Inc.1 day ago
Dallas, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$123k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable data pipelines, data products, and platform capabilities.
- Define technical strategy and deliver data solutions in collaboration with product, engineering, analytics, and data science teams.
- 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 from architecture and design through CI/CD operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 6 years of related experience, or alternative combinations including a master’s degree with 4 years, a Ph.D. with 1 year, or 18 years of related experience.
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or related technical fields.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale data platform and distributed-systems design and implementation.
- 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 in 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 training and inference data preparation, vector databases, LLM integration, RAG, prompt engineering, MLOps, model deployment pipelines, AI infrastructure, data lineage, observability, AI-driven data quality, and responsible AI governance.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with the ability to work remotely part of the week.
- Flexible paid vacation, seven paid holidays, and up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually.
- Additional paid leave may include bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer, military, and parental leave.
- Potential benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation, wellness days, and/or PTO.
- Rotational on-call duties outside standard business hours may be required.
- Employment requires a pre-employment drug test; marijuana is not currently included in the test for this position.
About Cox Enterprises, Inc.
Cox Enterprises is a privately held, Atlanta-based company operating businesses in broadband and automotive services. Through Cox Communications, it provides internet, voice, and video to residential and business customers; through Cox Automotive, it runs marketplaces and dealer software including Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book, and Manheim. Founded in 1898, the family-owned company also invests in sustainable technologies and other growth ventures.