Sr Lead Site Reliability & Systems Engineer

Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Engineering / Product Development

Sr Lead Software Engineer

Sr Manager - Non People LeaderHybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

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Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $163,400.00 - $272,300.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

SENIOR LEAD SITE RELIABILITY & SYSTEMS ENGINEER 

Platform Engineering | Infrastructure, Reliability & Systems Architecture 

 

ABOUT THE ROLE 

We are seeking a Senior Lead Site Reliability & Systems Engineer — a versatile technical leader who combines deep SRE expertise with broad systems engineering capability. In this hybrid role you will drive platform reliability, operational excellence, and systems architecture across our infrastructure, ensuring our products are scalable, resilient, and delivered with high velocity. You will partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to embed reliability and sound systems design at every layer of the stack. 

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Reliability Engineering & Incident Management 

• Define and drive the SRE strategy, roadmap, and standards across engineering teams 

• Establish and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across all production services 

• Own the incident management lifecycle — detection, response, resolution, and prevention 

• Lead blameless postmortems and translate findings into lasting systemic improvements 

• Manage on-call rotations and aggressively reduce toil through automation 

Systems Architecture & Design 

• Lead the design and evolution of large-scale, distributed systems and platform infrastructure 

• Define technical standards, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices org-wide 

• Evaluate and recommend technologies and tooling aligned to business and reliability requirements 

• Conduct architecture reviews and provide guidance on complex technical trade-offs 

• Lead capacity planning, performance engineering, and infrastructure scaling strategies 

Platform & Infrastructure 

• Build and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) 

• Drive infrastructure-as-code adoption (Terraform) and enforce best practices 

• Architect and implement observability platforms — metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting 

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release engineering workflows 

• Lead chaos engineering and game day exercises to validate system resilience 

• Champion automation across provisioning, testing, deployment, and monitoring workflows 

Leadership, Mentorship & Collaboration 

• Mentor and grow a team of SREs, platform engineers, and systems engineers 

• Partner with DevOps, security, and product teams to align on shared platform goals 

• Serve as the technical escalation