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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.Job Description\nCox Automotive is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to join our team. We are building a next-generation federated GraphQL platform (DriveQ supergraph) that unifies multiple enterprise data domains and powers internal and external products. This role will focus on scaling Apollo Federation infrastructure, enabling multi-tenant routing, and supporting emerging capabilities like contracts, billing, and data analytics. This role provides essential technical ownership of a rapidly evolving ecosystem that includes Snowflake-based transformations, self-service workflows, and emerging containerized execution models.\nBeyond individual contribution, the Lead Software Engineer serves as the central point of design leadership, guiding complex design decisions, enforcing engineering standards, and ensuring consistency across solutions. With the current team composition, where existing engineers are strong but not yet operating at a lead level, the absence of this role would create a significant gap in direction, mentorship, and decision-making. This would likely result in fragmented ownership, slower delivery, and increased operational risk.\nThe role is also pivotal in enabling next-generation capabilities such as AI-driven data quality, lineage, and impact analysis, areas that require cohesive design and cross-team coordination. At the same time, data science and analytics teams are rapidly advancing their own tooling and workflows, increasing the need for strong data engineering leadership to ensure scalability, reliability, and alignment with enterprise standards.\nWhat You'll Do:\nDesign and develop federated GraphQL (Apollo) architecture, including schema design, subgraph integration, and supergraph evolution.\nBuild and scale Apollo router infrastructure, supporting multi-region deployments, routing, and failover.\nImplement CI/CD pipelines and governance workflows to ensure safe schema evolution and avoid breaking API changes.\nDevelop capabilities for multi-tenant routing and Apollo contracts to support external and internal product use cases.\nContribute to platform-level initiatives such as usage telemetry, billing data capture, and Snowflake integration.\nPartner with data, platform, and product teams to onboard new subgraphs and improve discoverability.\nLead technical design discussions and mentor junior engineers.\nWho You Are:\n Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 4 years’ experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 18 years 'experience in a related field.\nExperience building distributed systems and APIs at scale.\nProficiency in TypeScript, Java, or Python (Apollo Server / Strawberry or similar frameworks preferred).\nHands-on experience with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, ECS/Kubernetes, DNS routing, CI/CD pipelines).\nStrong understanding of API design principles and governance.\nApplicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. \nNo OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.Availability for rotational on-call duties outside of standard business hours may be required.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with GraphQL and Apollo Federation\nFamiliarity with API gateway / routing layers (e.g., Kong, routers, load balancing)\nExperience with observability, telemetry, and data pipelines (S3, Snowflake)\nExposure to multi-region architecture and high-availability systems\nExperience working on platform teams or shared infrastructure\nDrug Testing\nTo be employed in this role, you’ll need to clear a pre-employment drug test. Cox Automotive does not currently administer a pre-employment drug test for marijuana for this position. However, we are a drug-free workplace, so the possession, use or being under the influence of drugs illegal under federal or state law during work hours, on company property and/or in company vehicles is prohibited.Benefits\nThe Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.About Us\nThrough groundbreaking technology and a commitment to stellar experiences for drivers and dealers alike, Cox Automotive employees are transforming the way the world buys, owns, sells - or simply uses - cars. Cox Automotive employees get to work on iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book and industry-leading dealer-facing companies like vAuto and Manheim, all while enjoying the people-centered atmosphere that is central to our life at Cox. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. 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