Platform Engineer

About the Opportunity

We made history and now we work to transform the future – for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters.

The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world.

• Platform Engineering Software Engineer (APIs & Developer Tools) to build and operate high‑quality internal and external APIs, developer tooling, and automation that make engineering teams faster and more reliable.
• Design secure, well‑documented services and CLI/SDK templates, apply strong testing and CI/CD practices, embed observability and operability into everything you ship.
• Collaborate across product and platform teams to standardize patterns, reduce operational toil, and drive adoption of platform solutions in a cloud‑native environment.

• Design and build internal and customer‑facing APIs and services that are secure, reliable, and well‑documented.
• Create developer tools and platform services that improve developer experience (DX): templates, CLIs, libraries, service scaffolding, automation.
• Apply engineering best practices: test‑driven development, code review, CI, and safe deployment patterns.
• Engineer for operability: structured logging, metrics/tracing, health endpoints, actionable alerts.
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to standardize patterns (authn/authz, secrets, configuration, resilience, versioning).
• Participate in incident response and reliability improvements; help teams reduce defects and operational risk.

• Strong software engineering experience delivering production services/APIs (design, implementation, testing, operations).
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (Java, Go, C#, Python, Type Script) and modern API practices.
• Experience with API design and lifecycle management (versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error modeling).
• Strong testing discipline (unit/component/integration tests) and comfort refactoring safely.
• Working knowledge of cloud‑native delivery: containers, CI/CD, operating services in a cloud environment.
• Ability to debug across layers (application, runtime, platform) using logs/metrics/traces.

• Experience building and maintaining platform APIs with an internal “product” mindset: usability, docs, support, adoption.
• Experience with event‑driven and asynchronous patterns (queues, pub/sub), reliability, idempotency.
• Security experience: OAuth/OIDC concepts, least privilege, threat modeling, input validation.
• Experience improving reliability using SLOs and reducing toil through automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code in partnership with platform/SRE teams.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp‑up programs, subsidized back‑up child care.
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Established and active employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 5 and ranges from $56,400–$94,900. This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $74,300–$124,500. This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600–$144,900. This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100–$166,200. Final determination of salary grade will be based on…