Cargurus Inc.

Team Lead, DevX Platform as a Service

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Sponsorship not specified$154k-$193kDetected 20 days ago

GitAWSKubernetesTerraformHelmCI/CDNginxSite Reliability EngineeringIncident ResponseLoad BalancingEpicLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

We're a sub-team within Developer Experience in Engineering Platform, partnering across engineering to remove friction, modernize our stack, and accelerate time-to-market.
You'll be the connective tissue between our platform's technical direction and the developers who depend on it every day.
Three big bets anchor the team's near-term direction: keeping Kubernetes healthy and cost-efficient through autoscaling and increasingly automated maintenance

Responsibilities

Own team operations for DevX PaaS: run 1:1s, sprint ceremonies, and quarterly capacity and project planning, and represent PaaS in Engineering Platform planning and prioritization forums.
Grow the engineers on your team through coaching, feedback, and equitable allocation of high-impact, growth-oriented work - including an "epic lead" model where engineers own end-to-end delivery of major initiatives.
Drive the platform (hands-on)
Help design, build, and operate the Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS with a focus on reliability, security, and developer ergonomics (multi-env, multi-region).
Lead critical upgrades and rollouts: Kubernetes, Rancher, and routine add-on upgrades utilizing ArgoCD and HCP Terraform.
Champion agentic and AI-assisted workflows for cluster maintenance - automating EKS upgrades, PR generation, and bundled maintenance to reduce manual toil and create predictable, low-disruption maintenance windows.
Pilot a more scalable, AI-assisted support model for developer questions - starting with PaaS - by curating documentation, embedding AI into the support flow, and reducing the manual triage burden on the team.
Represent PaaS in EP-level forums (all-hands, capacity planning, leads meetings), translating technical trade-offs into clear, audience-appropriate language for both engineers and executive stakeholders.
Build relationships across DevX, Engineering Platform, and product teams to advocate for the platform work that matters and to keep partners aligned and informed.
Developer empathy and clear communication; you enjoy building paved roads that hundreds of engineers can rely on, and you can tailor your message to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as a software engineer in a professional setting, with some experience leading projects, mentoring engineers, or acting as a tech lead / team lead.
Deep Kubernetes/EKS experience operating production workloads at scale, with proficiency in containerization and cloud environments.

Skills

Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth.
That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one.
Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products.
But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus-our employees do, too.
Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives.
Come join us for the ride!

Compensation

The displayed range represents the expected annual base salary / On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this position.

Benefits

Guide remaining platform modernization, including the tail end of the ingress-nginx retirement / Gateway API migration, to simplify developer configuration and reduce operational toil.

Company info

At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we're the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we've been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus-our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination.
We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping.
In fact, we're the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we've been profitable for over 15 years.
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step.
We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth.
keeping Kubernetes healthy and cost-efficient through autoscaling and increasingly automated maintenance; piloting an AI-assisted support model for developer questions (starting with PaaS); and standing up service discovery (and eventually service mesh) to simplify how services connect.
Everything below ladders up to these themes.

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