Platform Engineer - Developer

• As a Software Engineer on our Platform Engineering team, you will focus on designing and building high-quality APIs and internal developer tools that make a measurable impact on how hundreds of engineers work every day.

• This role leans toward software development. You will write production code, design APIs, and build automation while maintaining a working knowledge of cloud-native delivery, DevOps, and SRE practices. You will operate what you build, own its reliability in production, and continuously improve based on real-world usage.

What you'll do...

• Design and build internal and customer-facing APIs and services that are secure, reliable, and well-documented.

• Create developer tools and platform services that improve developer experience (DX): templates, CLIs, libraries, service scaffolding, automation.

• Apply engineering best practices: test-driven development, code review, CI, and safe deployment patterns.

• Engineer for operability: structured logging, metrics/tracing, health endpoints, and actionable alerts.

• Collaborate with platform and product teams to standardize patterns (authn/authz, secrets, configuration, resilience, versioning).

• Participate in incident response and reliability improvements; help teams reduce defects and operational risk.

• Strong software engineering experience delivering production services/APIs (design, implementation, testing, and operations).

• Proficiency in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Go, C#, Python, TypeScript) and modern API practices.

• Experience with API design and lifecycle management (versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, error modeling).

• Strong testing discipline (unit/component/integration tests) and comfort refactoring safely.

• Working knowledge of cloud-native delivery: containers, CI/CD, and operating services in a cloud environment.

• Ability to debug across layers (application, runtime, platform) using logs/metrics/traces.

• The role requires you to be onsite four days per week in Dearborn, MI. Remote work is NOT and option.

Even better you'll have...

• Experience building and maintaining platform APIs (internal "product" mindset: usability, docs, support, adoption).

• Experience with event-driven and asynchronous patterns (queues, pub/sub), reliability, and idempotency.

• Security experience: OAuth/OIDC concepts, least privilege, threat modeling, input validation.

• Experience improving reliability using SLOs and reducing toil through automation.

• Experience with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code in partnership with platform/SRE teams.

• Strong background in Go and/or Python.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've 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 builder…or 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 Year's Day

• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 5 and ranges from $68,300-$114,800.,

This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $85,400-$143,200.,

This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $99,600-$166,600.,

This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $115,000-$192,900.

Final determination of salary grade will be based on candidate's skills and experience, and base salary will be set within the applicable range according to job scope, responsibility and competitive market value.

Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) We made history and now we work to transform the future - for our customers, our communities and our families. You'll see your work on the road every day, helping people move freely and pursue their dreams. At Ford, you can build more than vehicles. Come build what matters The Ford Motor Credit Company team helps put people behind the wheels of great Ford and Lincoln vehicles. By partnering with dealerships, we provide financing, personalized service and professional expertise to thousands of dealers and millions of customers in over one hundred countries around the world. In this position... + Ford Credit Platform Engineering builds the shared services, APIs, and developer tooling that enable engineering teams across the organization to deliver value safely and quickly.