Distributed Systems Backend Engineer - Scalable, Secure APIs

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a backend software engineer to help design, develop, and operate backend services that support millions of vehicles worldwide. You will work on API integrations, authentication, and secure, scalable systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.

You’ll contribute to CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and collaboration across security, privacy, and enterprise teams. The role is hybrid with opportunities to influence across teams and endpoints in production

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience with distributed systems communication patterns (REST/gRPC, asynchronous messaging).
• Production experience building scalable, available services.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and delivery of backend services that broker and orchestrate API integrations across distributed systems.
• Design and implement reliable APIs and event-driven flows (REST/gRPC, webhooks, Pub/Sub).
• Implement authentication and authorization (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, mTLS, JWT) and manage secrets and rotation.
• Integrate services with enterprise infrastructure, identity, networking, and observability tooling.
• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs, contribute to logging, tracing, and alerting, and participate in on-call rotations.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code; follow build/deploy/release standards.
• Collaborate with security, legal, privacy, enterprise architecture, and data teams for compliance and end-to-end design.
• Participate in design and code reviews; maintain technical documentation and runbooks.
• Support product and integration teams onboarding partners with SDKs and sandbox/testing flows.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Tools

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

mTLS

JWT

Pub/Sub

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks a backend software engineer to help design, develop, and operate backend services that support millions of vehicles worldwide. You will work on API integrations, authentication, and secure, scalable systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability and performance.

You’ll contribute to CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and collaboration across security, privacy, and enterprise teams. The role is hybrid with opportunities to influence across teams and endpoints in production