Software Engineer, Distributed Systems & Networking

You will contribute to the design development and operation of backend services supporting millions of vehicles globally. Youll help ensure seamless integration with existing infrastructure and support the team in delivering software that is reliable high performance and secure.

What youll do...

• Contribute to the architecture and delivery of backend services that broker and orchestrate API integrations across distributed systems.
• Design and implement reliable APIs and event-driven flows (REST/gRPC webhooks Pub/Sub) including rate limiting retries backoff and circuit breakers under guidance from senior engineers.
• Implement authentication and authorization for service-to-service and partner integrations (OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect mTLS JWT) and support secrets management and key rotation processes.
• Integrate services with enterprise infrastructure identity networking and observability tooling; assist with secure network connectivity and private peering between environments as needed.
• Help define and monitor SLIs/SLOs contribute to logging tracing and alerting setups and participate in on-call rotations.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code following established build deploy and release standards.
• Collaborate with security legal privacy enterprise architecture and data teams to support compliance and robust end-to-end design.
• Participate in design and code reviews and help maintain technical documentation and runbooks.
• Support product and integration teams in onboarding partners including partner-facing contracts SDKs and sandbox/testing flows.

Youll have...

• 3 years of backend software engineering experience
• Proficiency in one or more languages: Go Java or Python
• Working understanding of distributed systems communication patterns (REST/gRPC asynchronous messaging via Pub/Sub API-first design)
• Experience building and supporting scalable available systems in production
• Good collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams
• Willingness to learn and grow technical leadership skills over time
• Nice to have: Experience building services for physical devices (vehicles phones IoT)

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 salary grade 8 and ranges from $138800-$232700.
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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