Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Enablement

Senior Engineering Manager – Cloud Enablement

At Car Gurus (NASDAQ: CARG) we are the largest, fastest‑growing automotive marketplace that empowers consumers to shop with trust and transparency. We support a culture of kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empower our team members with the tools to grow their careers.

The Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Enablement oversees the Cloud Enablement function. The role ensures the delivery of secure, scalable, and efficient cloud infrastructure and platform services and drives cloud governance, technical innovation, and operational excellence throughout the organization.

• Lead and mentor engineering teams responsible for foundational cloud infrastructure across development, staging and production environments.
• Partner with product engineering, product leaders and cross‑functional teams (SRE, Security, Dev Ops) to design, deploy and operate cloud‑native services and infrastructure, owning critical systems such as VPC, HCP, S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway and third‑party tools.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, Hashi Corp Cloud Platform, Git Hub, and related tooling.
• Drive platform reliability, security posture improvement and operational excellence as the center of excellence for cloud.
• Manage team capacity, project delivery and backlog across discretionary platform improvements.
• Develop and reinforce a culture of innovation, experimentation and collaboration while balancing operational excellence and reliability.
• Foster cross‑team partnerships with Product Engineering, SRE, Security and Dev Ops to deliver shared platform capabilities.

• 4+ years of hands‑on leadership experience managing high‑performing infrastructure/platform engineering teams, preferably in AWS‑centric environments.
• 8+ years total experience operating or managing Cloud, Dev Ops, SRE functions.
• Demonstrated capability delivering cloud governance, conformance, reliability and scalability across enterprise production workloads.
• Expertise designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code, modern CI/CD pipelines, Cloud Fin Ops and developer enablement tooling.
• Deep understanding of cloud system architecture and shared services for large‑scale SaaS/web platforms.
• Strong organizational, project‑management and prioritization skills; adept at capacity planning and backlog management for platform roadmaps.
• Excellent communicator: able to articulate vision, engage stakeholders and drive consensus across engineering and product teams.
• Experience shepherding teams through organizational change, promoting iterative improvement and supporting cloud adoption.
• Track record fostering an environment of growth, innovation and operational discipline.

Pay Range: $160,000—$200,000 USD

Individual pay within this range is based on work location, skills, experience and other factors. This range forms part of a comprehensive Total Rewards Package and may include bonuses, incentives and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Car Gurus offers best‑in‑class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both at hire and throughout career growth. We provide a flexible hybrid model, robust time‑off policies, daily free lunch, new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage and more to support work‑life balance and wellbeing.

Car Gurus is an equal‑employment‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or gender identity. We encourage applicants who may not meet every criterion and provide accommodations for disabled applicants as needed.