Platform Engineer – Developer

Ford Motor Company

Software Engineer on Ford Credit Platform Engineering team building APIs and developer tools. Focused on production code, automation, and cloud-native delivery.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeDearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $68,300 - $192,900 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoJavaKubernetesPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.
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.

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 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

API designproduction codebackend programmingJavaGoC#PythonTypeScripttesting disciplinecloud-native delivery

Soft Skills

problem-solvingreliability ownershipcontinuous improvementdebuggingcollaboration