Senior Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, maintain, and support essential cloud platform components that facilitate Ford’s connected vehicle functionalities.

• Oversee the complete delivery of software services that enhance critical customer experiences and support platform infrastructure.

• Serve as the domain expert for vital services, proactively identifying and addressing risks.

• Lead root-cause analyses for high-severity incidents.

• Propel improvements in reliability, observability, and performance throughout the platform.

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for complex distributed systems.

• Influence design choices, establish engineering standards, and ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, and secure.

• Mentor engineers and engage in technical reviews, knowledge sharing, and the promotion of best practices.

• Collaborate with product, operations, and cross-platform teams to synchronize technical execution with business and regulatory priorities.

• Design, develop, enhance, and operate global distributed microservices and cloud-native platforms.

• Lead performance benchmarking, capacity planning, and load testing initiatives.

• Ensure operational readiness, service health, monitoring, tracing, logging, metrics, alerting, incident response, and adherence to SLAs.

• Advocate for platform modernization and architectural enhancements.

• Assess implications related to security, compliance, cost, downstream consumers, and external partners.

• Conduct design reviews, define best practices, and guide technical direction.

• Align technical decisions with customer experience, business results, and platform sustainability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in designing, building, and operating production-grade distributed microservices.

• 8+ years of expertise in Java and Spring Boot development.

• 5+ years of practical experience with Kafka and real-time data streaming architectures.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, primarily AWS, with an openness to GCP.

• 3+ years of experience in API design and development, including REST, gRPC, JSON, and OpenAPI/Swagger.

• 3+ years of experience with relational databases, including PostgreSQL.

• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, including ArgoCD, Concourse, and GitHub.

• 3+ years of operational experience with monitoring, telemetry, and incident response tools such as Grafana, Dynatrace, DataDog, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, and PagerDuty.

• Experience with primary/secondary on-call rotations.

• Proficiency with Kubernetes/EKS, TDD, SonarQube, and FOSSA.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

• Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

• Visa sponsorship is not available.

• Preferred candidate locations are in the Pacific Time Zone or Texas/Central region.

🏝️ Benefits

• 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 and fertility treatments.

• Vehicle discount program for employees and their family members.

• Management leases.

• Tuition assistance.

• Established and active employee resource groups.

• Paid time off for individual and team community service.

• Generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

• Paid time off.

• Option to purchase additional vacation time.