CarGurus

https://careers.cargurus.com/

Public

1001-5000

Consumer Products & Tech

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, CarGurus is the all-in-one platform that’s moving the entire car shopping journey online and guiding customers through each step. This includes everything from selling an old car to financing, purchasing, and delivering a new one. Today, millions of consumers visit cargurus.com each month, and more than 30,000 dealerships use our products. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, while empowering our Gurus with tools and resources to fuel their career growth. Our goal is to give all people—consumers, dealers, and our employees—the power to reach their destination.

Job Description

Role overview

As a member of the Core Systems team you will contribute to providing foundational infrastructure as a consumable platform/service for revenue generating services, their dependencies, and product engineering teams. The scope of the team and role oversees cloud resources in AWS, cloud governance including, cost attribution, cloud networking, and OS configuration/orchestration. Additionally, are responsible for enabling customers to access the CarGurus website (ie Registrars, DNS, CDN) and for critical shared systems used across the organization. (ie Github, jFrog Artifactory, HashiCorp Vault).

What You'll Do

Design, build, and run CarGurus production infrastructure in collaboration with support and build/delivery platform teams.
Grow and maintain our global infrastructure by building new, extending or rearchitecting existing storage, compute, and data infrastructure services and platforms. (AWS S3, EC2, EKS, ELB, R53, IAM, etc)
Move towards 100% infrastructure as code using software and automation to repeatably instantiate and perform all lifecycle operations. (Terraform, Chef, Git, Github Actions, Concourse)
Accelerate the adoption of self-service workloads by delivering a suite of self-service offerings utilizing AWS services and IaaC.
Move towards detailed resource attribution and clear ownership following FinOps best practices.

What You'll Bring

Curiosity and a strong desire to innovate
Extremely comfortable and proficient hands-on Linux/Unix experience
Proficient in at least one high-level programming language (Python, Ruby, Go)
Experience with public/private cloud infrastructure using role-based security, APIs. (AWS, Terraform)
Experience working with creating infrastructure as code, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines. (Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc.)
Expertise building or working with a container or VM orchestration platform. (K8s, Openshift, Vmware, Docker Swarm)
Familiarity with Java web application development and production operations.
Broad familiarity with IP network routing, DNS, load balancing, and security.
Ability to take large projects and self-direct and work independently
Ability to work through ambiguity to discover the true driving factors and be able to make design decisions
At the core of our company culture is a spirit of innovation, curiosity and collaboration.
True to our start-up roots, we’re nimble, flexible and hardworking.

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!

Role overview

What You'll Do

Design, build, and run CarGurus production infrastructure in collaboration with support and build/delivery platform teams.
Grow and maintain our global infrastructure by building new, extending or rearchitecting existing storage, compute, and data infrastructure services and platforms. (AWS S3, EC2, EKS, ELB, R53, IAM, etc)
Move towards 100% infrastructure as code using software and automation to repeatably instantiate and perform all lifecycle operations. (Terraform, Chef, Git, Github Actions, Concourse)
Accelerate the adoption of self-service workloads by delivering a suite of self-service offerings utilizing AWS services and IaaC.
Move towards detailed resource attribution and clear ownership following FinOps best practices.

What You'll Bring

Curiosity and a strong desire to innovate
Extremely comfortable and proficient hands-on Linux/Unix experience
Proficient in at least one high-level programming language (Python, Ruby, Go)
Experience with public/private cloud infrastructure using role-based security, APIs. (AWS, Terraform)
Experience working with creating infrastructure as code, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines. (Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc.)
Expertise building or working with a container or VM orchestration platform. (K8s, Openshift, Vmware, Docker Swarm)
Familiarity with Java web application development and production operations.
Broad familiarity with IP network routing, DNS, load balancing, and security.
Ability to take large projects and self-direct and work independently
Ability to work through ambiguity to discover the true driving factors and be able to make design decisions
At the core of our company culture is a spirit of innovation, curiosity and collaboration.
True to our start-up roots, we’re nimble, flexible and hardworking.

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.

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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