LEAD SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER
Cox AutomotiveBase Salary
$167k - $204k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead implementation of infrastructure as code and automation with unit testing, quality gates, AppSec tooling, automated functional testing, and performance testing.
- Develop and maintain observability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, dashboards, alerting, and notification systems.
- Create and manage runbooks, gamedays, postmortems, and incident-response workflows.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams building enterprise-scale cloud solutions to improve SRE and DevOps practices and tooling.
- Establish best practices, support communities of practice, and promote adoption across engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field plus 6 years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree plus 4 years, or a Ph.D. plus 1 year.
- Six years of experience implementing quality frameworks with quality gates within a CI/CD framework.
- Six years of experience with observability platforms such as New Relic, CloudWatch, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Six years of experience working with AWS and CI/CD tooling and capabilities.
- Six years of experience using infrastructure as code with Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Six years of experience programming in C#, Java, or Python.
- Six years of experience with AppSec tools such as Veracode, CloudSploit, or Data Theorem.
- Experience may be acquired concurrently.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $167,177 to $203,610, with possible additional incentive compensation.
- Flexible paid vacation consistent with job duties, company needs, and obligations.
- Seven paid holidays annually.
- Up to 160 hours of paid wellness time annually for the employee or family members.
- Additional paid leave may include bereavement, voting, jury duty, volunteer, military, and parental leave.
- Austin, Texas office-based position with telecommuting permitted under company policy; employees must live within commuting distance.
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.