Senior Software Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Enterprise Technology is the engine driving the future of transportation. If you're looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the mobility landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people's lives, this is the opportunity for you.

Ford is seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our team in developing, enhancing, and expanding our suite of chaos engineering and observability generation tooling. You'll blend software and systems engineering to ensure the uptime, scalability, and maintainability of our critical cloud services. You'll be at the intersection of SRE and Software Development, building and driving the adoption of our global monitoring capabilities.

If you're passionate about using your IT expertise and analytical skills to shape the future of transportation, this is your opportunity to make a real impact. Join us and be part of a team that's building the future of mobility!

RESPONSIBILITIES

Write, configure, and deploy code in Go, JavaScript & Python that improves service reliability for existing or new systems set standard for others with respect to code quality.

- Develop APIs (REST/gRPC), integrations, and high‑performance backend services.

- Champion test-driven development.

- Write documentation: end-user documentation, ADRs/design, system analysis, runbooks, playbooks. Provide design feedback and uplevel design skills of others.
- Design distributed systems in the cloud, preferably using Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Provide helpful and actionable feedback and review for code or production changes.
- Drive repair/optimization of complex systems with consideration towards a wide range of contributing factors.
- Lead debugging, troubleshooting, and analysis of service architecture and design.
- Participate in on-call rotation.
- Implement and manage suite of chaos engineering products written in Golang, JavaScript & Python.
- Collaborate with development teams to enhance system reliability and performance, applying a platform engineering mindset to system administration tasks.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments.
- Participate in postmortem analysis and create preventative measures for future incidents.
- Implement and maintain security best practices across our infrastructure, ensuring compliance with industry standards and internal policies. Participate in security audits and vulnerability assessments.
- Participate in capacity planning and forecasting efforts to ensure our systems can handle future growth and demand. Analyze trends and make recommendations for resource allocation.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks through code profiling, system analysis, and configuration tuning. Implement and monitor performance metrics to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure business continuity in the event of a major outage or disaster. Participate in regular disaster recovery exercises.
- Contribute to internal knowledge bases and documentation.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent work experience.
- 8+ years of experience as an Software Engineer, or Development-focused SRE or similar role.
- Solid programming skills in Golang and JavaScript, and scripting languages, with a good understanding of software development best practices. Additional knowledge of C/C++ or Rust preferred.

- Deep understanding of the Linux internals.
- Proficient with monitoring and observability tools, particularly OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace or other tools.
- Proficient with cloud services, with a strong preference for Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience.
- Experience with relational and document databases.
- Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.