Staff Platform Software Engineer

Ford Motor Company

Staff Platform Software Engineer at Ford enhancing the Enterprise Data Platform with innovative architectures. Leading projects for optimizing data challenges using AI and cloud solutions.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $132,800 - $250,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularBigQueryCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPythonReactSDLCSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and evangelize industry-standard best practices for Java/Python backends and Angular/React frontends.
Drive the design and evolution of solution and application architectures across the Governance and Services portfolio.
Solve complex data challenges by maximizing distributed cloud parallelism.
Act as the organization’s AI champion.
Lead the development of agentic capabilities, leveraging current and future data platform features.
Use Terraform to drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and sophisticated CI/CD pipelines.
Lead by doing, showing, and teaching.
Act as a champion for right-sized and appropriate infrastructure.
Build deep relationships with engineers and senior leadership alike, distilling high-level technical complexity into palatable, actionable language for all stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
10+ years of professional software development experience, with significant experience in a Staff or Principal level role.
Expertise in Java and Python (backend) and Angular or React (frontend).
Deep proficiency in Big Data technologies, specifically BigQuery and advanced SQL.
Proven experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipeline development.
Demonstrated experience with the GCP Data Stack or equivalent transferable public cloud experience.
Strong command of modern branching strategies, DevSecOps workflows, and platform engineering principles.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM field (Preferred).
Certification or proven experience in Cloud FinOps, focusing on cloud cost management and performance tuning at scale (Preferred).
Expertise in leveraging AI Coding Assistants and large language models (Claude, Gemini) for accelerating the SDLC and creating AI-enabled test harnesses (Preferred).
Experience in Agentic development, building autonomous agents that interact with complex data platform capabilities (Preferred).
Deep knowledge of data governance frameworks and compliance standards (e.g., SOX, GDPR, CPRA) (Preferred).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaPythonAngularReactBigQuerySQLTerraformCI/CDDevSecOpsAI Coding Assistants

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationrelationship buildingproblem solvingteaching

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s Degree in Computer ScienceCloud FinOps certification