Senior Data Engineer

Be essential at Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com , our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, our reputation-based digital wholesale auction marketplace, Dealerclub, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community. Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today. At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

But don't take our word for it. We are proud to be named one of Built In's 2026 Best Places to Work in Chicago and across the U.S. Ready to make your mark? Join a team that's driving real change in the automotive industry.
About the Role -

[Remote and must be located in the Chicago area. May require onsite interviews]

Join us in shaping a future of Automotive Commerce. Cars Commerce builds solutions for automotive dealerships, manufacturers, and consumers. Our driving force is to deliver a single platform that simplifies everything about buying and selling cars.

Our Data and AI Platform team is embarking on a transformational journey, building innovative and integrated services that redefine how we deliver value to our customers and consumers alike. This is a rare opportunity to join a data-first company at a genuine inflection point — with strong leadership, a clear vision, and an enormous amount of meaningful work to be done. For a data professional who wants to build, create, and make a real impact — this is the place and the moment.
About You -

As a Senior Data Engineer on our Data Platform Engineering Team, you will help revitalize our Data Services and tooling across our platform with a comprehensive technical strategy to simplify and build scalable systems. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of our platforms and drive meaningful change at scale, making a lasting impact within the automotive industry.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you own a domain of our data platform end to end — not just implementing pipelines, but designing them and making the call on ambiguous, harder problems with little hand-holding. You set the quality bar for your area: data contracts with upstream producers, automated testing and anomaly detection, and monitoring that catches issues before the business does.

You'll build and tune production-grade pipelines using PySpark and advanced SQL, and design the dimensional models and medallion-style (bronze/silver/gold) data layers that Data Science, BI, and Analytics teams build on top of. You're also accountable for the performance and reliability of the warehouse assets your domain produces, including query tuning and cost-aware design in Redshift.

This role is also where we're pushing the platform forward: using Al-assisted development as a core part of how the team builds and ships, and helping lay the groundwork for a knowledge graph that connects our core entities and metrics across the business.
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