Team Lead DevX Platform as a Service

• Own team operations for DevX PaaS: run 1:1s sprint ceremonies and quarterly capacity and project planning and represent PaaS in Engineering Platform planning and prioritization forums.
• Grow the engineers on your team through coaching feedback and equitable allocation of high-impact growth-oriented work - including an "epic lead" model where engineers own end-to-end delivery of major initiatives.
• Shape the team's quarterly portfolio so that the team's energy is spent on the highest-leverage work balancing a heavy load of non-discretionary platform work (upgrades migrations maintenance on-call) against modernization and strategic initiatives.
• Be the primary point of contact for PaaS across Engineering Platform - framing problems aligning on scope and making sure downstream teams understand impacts and timelines.

• Help design build and operate the Kubernetes platform on AWS EKS with a focus on reliability security and developer ergonomics (multi-env multi-region).
• Guide the team's Controller/Operator and deployment model (e.g. CGService) to provide consistent self-service delivery across repositories and environments.
• Lead critical upgrades and rollouts: Kubernetes Rancher and routine add-on upgrades utilizing ArgoCD and HCP Terraform.
• Set the direction for autoscaling across product and EP services - driving automated scale-down day-2 EKS optimizations and cost/performance wins in partnership with product teams.
• Champion agentic and AI-assisted workflows for cluster maintenance - automating EKS upgrades PR generation and bundled maintenance to reduce manual toil and create predictable low-disruption maintenance windows.
• Advance service discovery (and eventually service mesh) to provide a robust automated way for services to find and communicate with each other reducing hard-coded dependencies and improving system resilience.
• Expand our proprietary Mach5 platform with AWS-native capabilities continuing to shield developers from Kubernetes complexity while modernizing the underlying stack.
• Guide remaining platform modernization including the tail end of the ingress-nginx retirement / Gateway API migration to simplify developer configuration and reduce operational toil.
• Pilot a more scalable AI-assisted support model for developer questions - starting with PaaS - by curating documentation embedding AI into the support flow and reducing the manual triage burden on the team.
• Raise platform reliability by hardening alerting/runbooks and participating in the team's on-call rotation with sensible business-hours expectations and documented handoffs.

• Represent PaaS in EP-level forums (all-hands capacity planning leads meetings) translating technical trade-offs into clear audience-appropriate language for both engineers and executive stakeholders.
• Build relationships across DevX Engineering Platform and product teams to advocate for the platform work that matters and to keep partners aligned and informed.
• Champion a healthy customer-centric operating model where platform priorities are visible and traceable to the outcomes our customer teams care about.

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer in a professional setting with some experience leading projects mentoring engineers or acting as a tech lead / team lead.
• Deep Kubernetes/EKS experience operating production workloads at scale with proficiency in containerization and cloud environments.
• Strong Go (or equivalent) systems programming skills; familiarity with controller/operator patterns is a plus.
• AWS fluency across core primitives (networking IAM load balancing storage) and platform guardrails.
• 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 security-by-default bent: policy-as-code (e.g. Kyverno) least-privilege image/runtime controls.
• People leadership instincts: you enjoy growing engineers running a calm and predictable team and making sharp prioritization calls under competing demands.
• Developer empathy and clear communication; you enjoy building paved roads that hundreds of engineers can rely on and you can tailor your message to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• An enthusiasm for leveraging AI to accelerate both your team's work and how the platform enables engineering.

What We Do

Headquartered in Boston Massachusetts CarGurus is the #1 visited digital auto platform in the U.S. for shopping buying and selling new and used vehicles and an award-winning place to work. We give drivers and dealers the confidence to buy or sell cars exactly how they want: online in-person or a combination of both. Our culture fosters kindness collaboration and innovation while empowering Gurus with opportunities and resources to fuel their career growth. We aim to give all people—consumers dealers and our employees—the power to reach their destination.

Why Work With Us

Being a top destination for buying and selling vehicles requires collaboration innovation and fresh perspective. So we empower our Gurus with opportunities and support that help them confidently contribute and continuously grow as their authentic selves. Amazing benefits and perks and development programs underscore our commitment to our people.

Gallery