Platform Engineer

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...We’re looking for a Platform Engineering Software Engineer (APIs & Developer Tools) to build and operate high‑quality internal and external APIs, developer tooling, and automation that make engineering teams faster and more reliable. You’ll design secure, well‑documented services and CLI/SDK templates, apply strong testing and CI/CD practices, and embed observability and operability into everything you ship. This role partners across product and platform teams to standardize patterns, reduce operational toil, and drive adoption of platform solutions in a cloud‑native environment.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.You'll have...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.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.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 coverageFlexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and moreFamily building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and moreVehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leasesTuition assistanceEstablished and active employee resource groupsPaid 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 $56,400-$94,900.This position is a salary grade 6 and ranges from $74,300-$124,500.This position is a salary grade 7 and ranges from $86,600-$144,900.This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $99,100-$166,200.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.For more information on salary and benefits, click here: https://fordcareers.co/GSRVisa sponsorship is not available for this position.Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.