Senior Software Engineer

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.

Ford’s Electric Vehicles, Digital and Design (EVDD) team is charged with delivering the company’s vision of a fully electric transportation future. EVDD is customer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, and data-driven and is dedicated to delivering industry-leading customer experience for electric vehicle buyers and owners. You’ll join an agile team of doers pioneering our EV future by working collaboratively, staying focused on only what matters, and delivering excellence day in and day out.

Join us to make positive change by helping build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams.

Design, develop, maintain, and support multiple mission-critical cloud platform components that enable Ford’s connected vehicle capabilities.

• Own end-to-end delivery of software services powering critical customer experiences, as well as the platform infrastructure that supports them.
• Act as a domain owner for critical services, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, leading root-cause analysis for high-severity incidents, and driving long-term reliability, observability, and performance improvements across the platform.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for complex, distributed systems within the device connectivity platform, influencing design decisions, setting engineering standards, and ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and secure.
• Mentor other engineers, contribute to technical reviews, knowledge sharing, and best practices, while partnering closely with product, operations, and cross-platform teams to align technical execution with business and regulatory priorities.

• Full-Stack Engineering Expertise:
  Expertise designing, developing, evolving, and operating global, large-scale, distributed microservices and cloud-native platforms using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes/EKS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, gRPC, REST, AWS at extreme scales.
• Cloud & Dev Ops Proficiency:
  Strong technical acumen in cloud computing and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and Dev Ops tools (Concourse, ArgoCD, Sonar Qube, FOSSA, Git Hub) to ensure secure, reliable, and efficient delivery.
• Quality & Performance Focus:
  Sets quality bars for code health, testing strategy, API performance, and scalability. Leads performance benchmarking, capacity planning, and load testing efforts to ensure systems meet current and future reliability and scalability demands.
• Operational Excellence &
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Owns operational readiness and service health for critical systems, including monitoring (Grafana), tracing (Dynatrace), logging (Data Dog), metrics (Open Telemetry, Victoria Metrics), alerting (Prometheus), incident response (Pager Duty), and SLA adherence. Anticipates operational risks, drives root cause analysis of complex incidents, and implements durable solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Domain Ownership:
  Serves as a recognized subject-matter expert for critical platform components or domains, accountable for their evolution.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement:
  Identifies and champions platform modernization efforts and architectural improvements. Influences longer-term technical roadmaps through data-informed recommendations while confidently making decisions with incomplete or evolving information.
• Enterprise & Ecosystem Thinking:
  Evaluates decisions through an enterprise lens, considering downstream consumers, external partners, security, compliance, and…