Distributed Systems Backend Engineer — Hybrid

Ford-Motor-Company; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Parental leave

Tuition assistance

Vehicle discount program

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a backend software engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services that broker API integrations across distributed systems. You will help ensure secure, high-performance systems with robust observability and reliable release processes.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement authentication, authorization, and service-to-service security, while supporting partner onboarding, SDKs, and sandbox workflows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience with REST/gRPC and event-driven patterns.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and delivery of backend services broker and orchestrate API integrations.
• Design and implement reliable APIs and event-driven flows (REST/gRPC, webhooks, Pub/Sub).
• Implement authentication/authorization for service-to-service integrations (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, JWT).
• Integrate services with enterprise infrastructure and observability tooling; assist with secure connectivity.
• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and contribute to logging, tracing, and alerts; participate in on-call rotations.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code following standards.
• Collaborate with security, legal, privacy, and data teams to support compliance.
• Participate in design and code reviews; maintain docs and runbooks.
• Support product/integration teams onboarding partners, including SDKs and sandbox flows.

Skills

Backend development

Go

Java

Python

Distributed systems

APIs (REST/gRPC)

CI/CD

On-call/operational

Tools

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWT

Pub/Sub

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a backend software engineer to design, build, and operate scalable services that broker API integrations across distributed systems. You will help ensure secure, high-performance systems with robust observability and reliable release processes.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement authentication, authorization, and service-to-service security, while supporting partner onboarding, SDKs, and sandbox workflows.