Platform Engineer - Developer

Ford • Dearborn, MI

1d • $68,300 - $192,900 • Remote

About The 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. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed