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Engineering Manager, DevX Platform as a Service

📅 Jul 2
Engineering ManagementKubernetesAWS EKSDistributed Systems
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📜 Description

  • Lead, mentor, and grow engineers, supporting their technical development and career progression.
  • Set the DevX PaaS strategy and roadmap, and own team operations, hiring, and performance management.
  • Guide the PaaS roadmap from concept through design, implementation, and measurement with platform and product teams.
  • Set technical direction for the Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS and the Mach5 platform’s evolution with AWS-native capabilities.
  • Promote AI-assisted engineering, including automation of recurring maintenance and support for developer questions.
  • Prioritize quarterly work across upgrades, migrations, maintenance, on-call, modernization, and strategic initiatives; advocate for reliability, security, and developer ergonomics.

🛠️ Requirements

  • 7+ years of relevant engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management or technical lead role
  • Solid backend engineering foundation—comfortable engaging deeply in architectural discussions, system design, and technical trade-offs, particularly in Kubernetes/EKS environments, distributed systems, controller/operator patterns.
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub-based workflows) and CI/CD automation.
  • An observability and SRE mindset: metrics, tracing, logging, SLOs, incident response, and post-incident learning.
  • A developer/customer-focused mindset with a bias toward data-driven decisions, and a track record of building paved roads that hundreds of engineers rely on.
  • Strong project management skills and experience with Agile methodologies; able to drive clarity and incremental progress in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and help them grow technically and professionally, plus experience with hiring, performance management, and talent development.
  • A strong communicator and collaborator who builds trust across engineering and business stakeholders, and can tailor your message to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Curious, empathetic, and plays well with others — with a commitment to continuous learning and expanding your capabilities.

✨ Benefits

  • Equity for all employees.
  • Discretionary bonuses or incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) may be available.
  • Career development programs.
  • Flexible hybrid model.
  • Robust time off policies.
  • Daily free lunch.
  • New car discount.
  • Meditation and fitness apps.
Full job description

Who we are

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!

CarGurus is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead DevX PaaS, a sub-team within Developer Experience in Engineering Platform. DevX PaaS builds and operates CarGurus' Kubernetes-based developer platform, enabling product teams to ship quickly, reliably, and at scale—partnering across engineering to remove friction, modernize our stack, and accelerate time-to-market.

You'll lead a team of talented engineers, own the team's strategy and operations end to end, set the technical direction for our most important platform work, and champion AI-first ways of working.

What you'll do

  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers supporting their technical development and career growth while fostering a collaborative, high-performance team culture.
  • Own team strategy for DevX PaaS: translate the Engineering Platform functional plan into a team-level roadmap, own performance management and hiring/talent decisions, and represent PaaS in Engineering Platform planning and prioritization forums.
  • Partner closely with Engineering Platform leadership and downstream product teams to drive the PaaS roadmap from concept through technical design, implementation, and measurement
  • Champion AI-forward engineering practices across the team — actively promoting agentic automation of recurring maintenance and piloting a more scalable, AI-assisted support model for developer questions
  • Set the technical direction for the Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS and the continued evolution of our proprietary Mach5 platform with AWS-native capabilities.
  • Guide platform modernization to simplify developer configuration and reduce operational toil.
  • Manage project scope, estimation, and prioritization for the team's quarterly portfolio — balancing a heavy load of non-discretionary platform work (upgrades, migrations, maintenance, on-call) against modernization and strategic initiatives.
  • Collaborate effectively across team boundaries — working with Engineering Platform and product teams to align on dependencies, frame problems, and make sure downstream teams understand impacts and timelines.
  • Advocate for engineering excellence — reliability, security, and developer ergonomics — and represent PaaS in Engineering Platform-level forums (all-hands, capacity planning, leads meetings), translating technical trade-offs into clear, audience-appropriate language for both engineers and executive stakeholders.

What you'll bring

  • 7+ years of relevant engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management or technical lead role
  • Solid backend engineering foundation—comfortable engaging deeply in architectural discussions, system design, and technical trade-offs, particularly in Kubernetes/EKS environments, distributed systems, controller/operator patterns.
  • Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub-based workflows) and CI/CD automation.
  • An observability and SRE mindset: metrics, tracing, logging, SLOs, incident response, and post-incident learning.
  • Genuine enthusiasm for AI and agentic development: you believe AI-driven automation is the future of platform engineering, and you lead by example — setting a vision for AI-assisted maintenance and support and guiding engineers through the cultural and technical shift.
  • A developer/customer-focused mindset with a bias toward data-driven decisions, and a track record of building paved roads that hundreds of engineers rely on.
  • Strong project management skills and experience with Agile methodologies; able to drive clarity and incremental progress in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and help them grow technically and professionally, plus experience with hiring, performance management, and talent development.
  • A strong communicator and collaborator who builds trust across engineering and business stakeholders, and can tailor your message to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Curious, empathetic, and plays well with others — with a commitment to continuous learning and expanding your capabilities.

The displayed range represents the expected annual base salary / On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this position. On-Target Earnings (OTE) is inclusive of base salary and on-target commission earnings, which applies exclusively to sales roles.

Individual pay within this range is determined by work location and other factors such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

This annual base salary forms part of a comprehensive Total Rewards Package. In addition to benefits, this role may qualify for discretionary bonuses/incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Position Pay Range
$154,000-$193,000 USD


Working at CarGurus

We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.

CarGurus may require in-person interviews as part of our hiring process, particularly for positions based in our Boston and Dublin offices. Candidates selected for an in-person interview will be notified in advance. Please be aware that travel expenses are the responsibility of the candidate.

We welcome all

CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid

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