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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer, Distributed Systems & Networking - **Company:** Ford Motor Company - **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $138,800.0 - $232,700.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Adobe InDesign, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Code Review, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Network Security, OAuth, Openid Connect, Message Oriented Middleware, Software Engineering, User-Centered Design, Datadog, Data Logging, Backend, Rate Limiting, Api Design, Grpc, Webhooks, Api Management - **Published:** September 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d5d15a681b60a388 ## About the Role * 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) ## Description You will contribute to the design, development, and operation of backend services supporting millions of vehicles globally. You'll help ensure seamless integration with existing infrastructure and support the team in delivering software that is reliable, high performance, and secure. What you'll 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. ## Related Videos - [Car's are Technology on Wheels - Impact of Software and IT Competence in Automotive](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/780-car-s-are-technology-on-wheels-impact-of-software-and-it-competence-in-automotive) - [Exploring the Power of gRPC-Gateway for Writing RESTful Services](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2072-exploring-the-power-of-grpc-gateway-for-writing-restful-services) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Agile work at CARIAD – Creating a customer web application for controlling the vehicle ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/200-agile-work-at-cariad-creating-a-customer-web-application-for-controlling-the-vehicle) - [Boosting OpenSearch Performance: gRPC Search in Action](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1964-boosting-opensearch-performance-grpc-search-in-action) ## Related Articles - [How software is steering vehicle technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/515-how-software-is-steering-vehicle-technology) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 139 - Soft and hard queries](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/487-dev-digest-139-soft-and-hard-queries) - [Dev Digest 107 - And the OSScar goes to…](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/405-dev-digest-107-and-the-osscar-goes-to)