Lead Software Engineer, Physical Applications Services

You will own the end-to-end design development and operation of cloud services on GCP ensure seamless integration with Fords existing cloud infrastructure and lead SW development toward high reliability performance and security.

What youll do...

• Own architecture and delivery of backend services on GCP that broker and
  orchestrate API integrations for vehicle features.
• Design and implement reliable scalable APIs and event-driven flows (REST/gRPC
  webhooks Pub/Sub) including rate limiting retries backoff and circuit breakers.
• Define and implement authentication and authorization for partner integrations
  (OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect mTLS JWT) secrets management and key rotation.
• Integrate services with Fords enterprise cloud environment identity networking
  and observability tooling; establish secure connectivity (VPC peering/VPN/Private
  Service Connect) across clouds as needed. Establish SLIs/SLOs monitoring
  logging tracing alerting and on-call readiness; drive SRE best practices.
• Lead CI/CD and infrastructure as code; standardize build deploy and release
  processes.
• Collaborate with security legal privacy enterprise architecture data and
  vehicle/embedded teams to ensure compliance and robust end-to-end design.
• Mentor engineers perform design and code reviews and drive technical roadmap
  documentation and runbooks.
• Manage cost performance and capacity plan for load spikes and global scale.
• Partner with product and integration teams to onboard third parties and define
  partner-facing contracts SDKs and sandbox/testing flows.

Youll have...

• 5 years of backend software engineering experience
• Strong experience designing and operating services on Google Cloud
• Proficiency in one or more languages: Go Java or Python
• Experience with API management and partner ecosystems (Apigee/API Gateway
  developer portals partner onboarding).
• Solid understanding of REST/gRPC asynchronous messaging and API-first design.
• Solid understanding of OAuth 2.0/OIDC JWT TLS/mTLS
• Proven experience building scalable highly available systems and operating them
  in production
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams.
  

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

As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:
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 and more
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement fertility treatments and more
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 Years Day
Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a leadership level 5 and ranges from $167200-$316600.
Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidates skills and experience and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope responsibility and competitive market value.

For more information on salary and benefits click here: sponsorship is available for this position.

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This position is hybrid. Candidates who are in commuting distance to a Ford hub location may be required to be onsite four or more days per week. #LI-Hybrid

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