Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challengeand Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don’t take our word for it. As a U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024, we're obsessive about the employee experience. We are among the top 20% being declared “Best” of our industry based on six critical factors that are important to employee wellbeing, like quality of pay, benefits, work life balance and more.

[100% remote role. May require onsite interviews]

About the Role

Join us in shaping the future of Automotive Commerce with our marketplace platform - Cars.com. Our Marketplace Platform’s Operations Team is on a mission to accelerate innovation by building and maintaining the infrastructure, tooling, and systems that enable our development teams to deliver scalable, resilient, highly available software efficiently and securely, with full observability and automated feedback loops.

Our Platform Operations team is the foundation that powers our entire engineering organization. We own the critical infrastructure services that enable CI/CD pipelines, observability, and developer tooling—the digital foundation that empowers every engineering team across the Cars Commerce Marketplace. This work enables our product teams with innovative technical solutions and self-service capabilities to build, deploy, and operate their services with confidence.

This is an incredible opportunity to make a direct impact. You'll collaborate closely with Engineering Leadership to translate bold infrastructure goals into reliable, scalable platforms. You will drive best-in-class engineering practices around scalability, observability, security, and reliability in your daily work. As you grow in the role, you'll have the chance to deepen your technical expertise, own larger platform initiatives, and contribute significantly to our architectural direction.

Join us and build the core marketplace platform capabilities that are redefining how engineering teams build, deploy, and operate at scale!

About You

As a Lead Senior Software Engineer, You’re a results-driven engineering leader (Independent Contributor)  with deep expertise in building scalable, reliable platform infrastructure. You excel at designing CI/CD systems from the ground up, architecting and troubleshooting cloud environments, optimizing systems for performance and maintainability, and creating robust developer tooling for fast-growing teams. 

Our Lead Senior Software Engineer has a strong grasp of platform engineering best practices, you make strategic technical decisions that balance immediate delivery with long-term stability. Equally comfortable coding or guiding teams,  values testing, observability, and strong pipelines as the backbone of dependable systems. 

Above all, our Lead Senior Software Engineer, is a systems thinker passionate about developing core platform capabilities that help engineers innovate quickly and confidently.

Why You'll Be Excited About This Role

This opportunity enables you to...

• Design and Build Strategic Platform Infrastructure: Lead