Senior Software Engineer
Ford Motor2 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$133k - $284k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, maintain, and support mission-critical cloud platform components for connected vehicle capabilities.
- Own end-to-end delivery of software services and supporting platform infrastructure.
- Act as a domain owner for critical services, identifying risks, leading root-cause analysis, and driving reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
- Design and operate large-scale distributed microservices and cloud-native platforms.
- Provide architectural guidance, lead design reviews, define engineering standards, and influence technical direction.
- Lead benchmarking, capacity planning, load testing, monitoring, tracing, logging, alerting, incident response, and service-health initiatives.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, operations, and cross-platform teams on technical execution and business priorities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical work experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating production-grade distributed microservices.
- 8+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot development.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Kafka and real-time data streaming architectures.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, primarily AWS, with openness or exposure to GCP.
- 3+ years of experience designing and developing APIs using REST, gRPC, JSON, and OpenAPI/Swagger.
- 3+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and CI/CD pipelines using ArgoCD, Concourse, and GitHub.
- 3+ years of operational experience with monitoring, telemetry, and incident response tools, including primary and secondary on-call rotations.
- Preferred qualifications include GCP or AWS-to-GCP migration experience, Tyk API Gateway experience, telemetry and metrics platform experience, and automotive, connected vehicle, telematics, or high-criticality IoT streaming experience.
- Candidates in the Pacific Time Zone or Texas/Central region are preferred.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup childcare.
- Family-building benefits including adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility treatments.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
- Tuition assistance and established employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for community service, paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
- The position is remote, as indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaArgo CDAWSDatadogGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanagRPCJavaKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusSonarQubeSpring Boot
About Ford Motor
Ford Motor Company designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, SUVs, and commercial vehicles for consumers and businesses, and provides financing through Ford Credit. A public company headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan and listed on the NYSE, it operates globally under the Ford and Lincoln brands, including electric and connected vehicles such as the F‑150 Lightning and Mustang Mach‑E. Founded in 1903, it also offers software-driven fleet, mobility, and aftersales services.