Site Reliability Engineer - Observability Platform
Ford Motor22 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$85k - $193k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable observability pipelines for metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to improve availability and uptime.
- Build reusable infrastructure-as-code templates and frameworks for observability instrumentation and onboarding.
- Develop automation that improves application resilience, recoverability, availability, and scalability while reducing toil.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native software systems.
- Identify stability risks, establish mitigation plans, and analyze performance and capacity metrics.
- Troubleshoot distributed production systems, lead root-cause analysis, and participate in incident response, recovery, and postmortems.
- Evaluate AI/ML capabilities for anomaly detection, alerting precision, and performance insights.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
- Embed observability best practices into system design and deployment workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- At least 3 years of experience in an SRE role.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with Python, Go, Java/Scala, C, or C++.
- At least 3 years of experience building reusable infrastructure-as-code templates and frameworks with Terraform or ToFu.
- At least 3 years of experience with APM and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Sensu, Nagios, Kafka, or DataDog.
- At least 3 years of experience with J2EE, NoSQL/SQL datastores, Spring Boot, GCP/AWS/Azure, and Docker/Kubernetes in multi-tier application development.
- Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices platforms.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, internet routing, and load balancing.
- Strong proficiency with Google Cloud Platform and its services.
- Experience with automated, test-driven development in CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of software development, agile methodologies, and observability strategies for improving MTTD and MTTR.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, 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 active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for community service, paid holidays including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, and an option to purchase additional vacation time.
- Remote position.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureCC++DatadogDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesNagiosPrometheusPythonScalaSplunkSpring BootSQLTerraform
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
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.