Cars.com is hiring a
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Cars Commerce, a leading automotive technology company, as a Senior Engineer to lead projects, collaborate with the team, and design and maintain systems that deliver value to customers. The ideal candidate has experience in infrastructure as code, containerization, and AWS, with a strong background in systems engineering fundamentals.

Requirements

• 5+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience on AWS
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Demonstrated experience with AWS infrastructure tools (EKS, OpenSearch, S3, RDS, API gateway, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53, VPC)
• Demonstrated experience with container orchestration solutions (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Thorough knowledge of systems engineering fundamentals (networking, storage, operating systems)
• Demonstrated experience programming with at least one language such as Elixir, Golang, C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, Ruby, SQL
• Extensive experience using modern monitoring tools (Cloudwatch, DataDog, etc) and establishing metrics, monitoring, alarming, and dashboards
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, SRE concepts and best practices
• Experience in a high-availability environment
• Experience with DNS, Web Traffic Routing, and CDNs (Cloudfront, Akamai, Cloudflare)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) orchestration tools (Terraform and Terragrunt)
• Understanding of CI/CD and deployment toolchains
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent practical experience required
• Ability and willingness to manage ambiguity i.e., help shape solutions and prioritize deliverables to align with the Company’s vision

Responsibilities

• Deliver work to completion
• Incrementally breakdown and manage work for yourself and at times the team to complete our highest priority projects
• Recognize and demonstrate the ability to see how day to day work maps to the big picture company goals and adapt work accordingly
• Partner with stakeholders for requirements and prioritization
• Document, build, and support cloud infrastructure for new and existing applications within AWS
• Build operational maturity and readiness into team culture
• Establish and document standards and procedures for team and organization wide initiatives
• Build and maintain monitoring and dashboards to drive data driven discovery and monitoring of systems
• Build tooling to proactively detect problems and mechanisms to solve them before they become emergencies
• Proactively plan and execute routine maintenance and auditing
• On-call support of AWS cloud infrastructure
• Design, document, and maintain our cloud infrastructure via Infrastructure-as-Code
• Improve operational tasks via automation

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience implementing and supporting high traffic (millions of daily visits) applications and services running on AWS
• Strong track record of delivering results for large scale systems
• Strong mentoring skills
• Ability to be a force multiplier for the team that shares knowledge and supports skill growth across the team
• Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in AWS using Terraform
• Ability to recognize silos of skills and responsibilities and break them down to shared responsibilities

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
• 401(k) with Company Match + Immediate Vesting
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Generous PTO
• Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day