Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Ford Motor CompanyThis job is no longer accepting applications
Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
Enterprise Technology is the engine driving the future of transportation. If you're looking for an opportunity to leverage cutting-edge technology to redefine mobility, enhance customer experiences, and improve people's lives, we'd like to hear from you.
Ford is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help develop, enhance, and expand our observability and chaos engineering platform capabilities. This role combines software engineering and site reliability engineering practices to improve the availability, scalability, performance, and resilience of mission-critical cloud services.
You will work at the intersection of software development, platform engineering, and reliability engineering, building solutions that enable teams across the organization to monitor, test, and improve system reliability at scale.
If you're passionate about solving complex engineering challenges and building highly resilient systems, join us in shaping the future of mobility.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, develop, test, and deploy software solutions using Golang, JavaScript, and Python.
- Build and maintain REST and gRPC APIs, integrations, and high-performance backend services.
- Champion engineering excellence through test-driven development, code reviews, and automation.
- Design and support distributed cloud-native systems, preferably on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes.
- Develop and maintain chaos engineering platforms and reliability-focused tooling.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system reliability, observability, scalability, and performance.
- Lead troubleshooting, debugging, root-cause analysis, and resolution of complex production issues.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and incident response activities.
- Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures to reduce recurring issues.
- Define and implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions using industry-standard tools.
- Implement security best practices and support security audits and vulnerability remediation efforts.
- Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, and infrastructure optimization.
- Develop, maintain, and validate disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture decisions, runbooks, playbooks, and operational procedures.
- Mentor team members and provide technical leadership through design reviews and engineering best practices.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering experience.
- Strong programming skills in Golang and experience with one or more scripting/programming languages such as Python or JavaScript.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems in cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of Linux operating systems and system internals.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms.
- Experience with observability and monitoring solutions, including OpenTelemetry or similar technologies.
- Experience developing APIs and backend services.
- Familiarity with relational and/or document databases.
- Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Experience with chaos engineering concepts and tooling.
- Experience with Dynatrace or similar observability platforms.
- Knowledge of C++, Rust, or other systems programming languages.
- Experience with platform engineering practices and infrastructure automation.
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chaos engineering
document databases
observability solutions
gRPC APIs
OpenTelemetry
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.Net Core, Design Patterns, C#, Agile Methodology, Sql Queries, HTML, Microservices, Angular, Javascript, Selenium Automation, Oracle, Python, Sonar, SQL Server, JQuery, Autosys, Webapi, Xml, ASP.Net, Mvc, Object-Oriented Programming, PCF cloud platform, ETL jobs scheduling, AI Agentic solutions, CI CD pipelines
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Testing, PostgreSQL, Data Modeling, Django, React, Typescript, System Design, Python, full-stack engineering, data pipelines, LLMs, Go, search infrastructure, AI agents
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snowflake , Java, Sql, Azure Functions, Docker, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Talend Cloud Data Integration tool, Pentaho Kettle, Event-driven systems, Microservices architectures, Serverless technologies, Spring-based frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, Git-based source control, Automated testing frameworks
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Shell Scripting, Cloud Architecture, Docker, Openshift, Diameter, Kubernetes, PCRF, CaaS, VNF, Mobile Data Traffic Management, Policy and Charging Enforcement Function, Virtualized or Openstack Cloud environment, HTTP2, Nokia NPC-Policy, Policy Charging Rule Function, CNF
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Sqlalchemy, PostgreSQL, Sql, Oop, Django, React, Typescript, Docker, FastAPI, Restful Apis, Python, AWS, Generative AI, Prompt engineering, LLMs, mypy, Claude Code, GitHub Actions, Async Python, Type hints, Pydantic, CI/CD