Sr Lead Site Reliability & Systems Engineer

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Cox Automotive · Austin, TX

Full-timeHybridToday

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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.

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 point for critical infrastructure incidents and outages

Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and leadership

Contribute to build vs. buy evaluations and drive strategic vendor assessments

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

8+ years of experience in SRE, systems engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles

3+ years in a senior or lead capacity with ownership of large-scale, distributed systems

Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider - AWS preferred

Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, Java, or C++

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies

Solid understanding of Linux/Unix internals, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/SSL, load balancing)

Proficiency with observability tooling: Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, Splunk, or equivalent

Proven track record defining and operating against SLOs and error budgets

Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools - Terraform required

Strong understanding of distributed systems design, security fundamentals, and data governance

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