Job brief: Senior DevOps Engineer

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• Listed on CarGurus's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (5 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
• The apply link opens careers.cargurus.com, the address CarGurus's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $137,000 to $171,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Boston (1001 Boylston Street)
• Posted: 2026-06-26 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.
• 4+ years of professional experience in a hands-on DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure role, performing the core responsibilities of this position.

Conditions

• Platform Integrity: Sentinel/Semgrep policy maturity, shift-left guardrails, pipeline hardening, and cloud maturity model advancement.
• Incident Management & Reliability: Participate in the team's on-call rotation and incident response.
• A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being.
• Please be aware that travel expenses are the responsibility of the candidate.

Main duties

• Platform Delivery & Technical Ownership: Own the technical execution and delivery of significant platform capabilities. Author design docs and contribute to …
• IaC Platform & Policy Engineering: Manage HCP Terraform workspaces, the Terraform module registry, and Sentinel/Semgrep policy implementations. Calibrate har…
• Secrets & Security Integration: Accelerate Vault adoption across CarGurus workloads — handling dynamic secrets, PKI/CA, transit encryption, and AWS dynamic I…
• AI Infrastructure Governance: Maintain and operate our governed Amazon Bedrock platform, implementing per-team access controls, cost attribution, anomaly det…
• Developer Enablement & Self-Service: Expand the AWS self-service catalog and paved-path IaC offerings so teams can provision, operate, and own cloud resource…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Boston, MA: $168k a year (196 listings, 21 employers). This listing is 8% lower.
• Across CarGurus's 38 open listings, 45% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How CarGurus hires

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