Software Engineer, Distributed Systems & Networking
Ford Motor1 day ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$139k - $233k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architecture and delivery of backend services that broker and orchestrate API integrations across distributed systems.
- Design and implement reliable REST/gRPC APIs and event-driven flows using webhooks and Pub/Sub, including rate limiting, retries, backoff, and circuit breakers.
- Implement authentication and authorization for service-to-service and partner integrations, including secrets management and key rotation.
- Integrate services with enterprise infrastructure, identity, networking, observability tooling, and private network connections.
- Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and contribute to logging, tracing, alerting, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and on-call operations.
- Collaborate with security, legal, privacy, enterprise architecture, data, product, and integration teams.
- Support partner onboarding through contracts, SDKs, sandbox environments, and testing flows.
- Participate in design and code reviews and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of backend software engineering experience.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Java, or Python.
- Working understanding of distributed-systems communication patterns, including REST/gRPC, asynchronous messaging via Pub/Sub, and API-first design.
- Experience building and supporting scalable, highly available production systems.
- Ability to collaborate and communicate across cross-functional teams.
- Willingness to develop technical leadership skills over time.
- Experience building services for physical devices such as vehicles, phones, or IoT devices is preferred.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
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 and management lease programs for employees and family members.
- Tuition assistance and active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service.
- Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, plus additional paid vacation and an option to purchase more vacation time.
- Hybrid work arrangement; candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub may be required onsite four or more days per week.
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.