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, development, and operation of scalable backend services for distributed systems.
- Design and implement reliable REST/gRPC APIs and event-driven flows with 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, private peering, and observability tooling.
- Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and contribute to logging, tracing, alerting, CI/CD, 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, and sandbox/testing flows; participate in reviews and maintain 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 systems in production.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams.
- Willingness to develop technical leadership skills over time.
- Preferred: experience building services for physical devices such as vehicles, phones, or IoT systems.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent programs, subsidized backup childcare, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, and fertility benefits.
- Vehicle discount and management lease programs for employees and family members.
- Tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and paid community-service time off.
- Paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day, plus paid time off and optional additional vacation purchase.
- Hybrid work arrangement; candidates within commuting distance of a Ford hub may be required onsite four or more days per week.
- Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
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.