Hybrid Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems & Networking

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Parental leave

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Ford is seeking a backend software engineer to design, develop, and operate scalable services used by millions of vehicles. You will broker API integrations, implement REST/gRPC interfaces, and ensure secure, high‑performing systems in a hybrid work model.

This role emphasizes collaboration with security, privacy, and enterprise teams across Ford's global platform. Candidates should have 3+ years of backend experience and proficiency in Go, Java, or Python.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience with REST/gRPC and distributed systems patterns.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and delivery of backend services.
• Design reliable APIs and event-driven flows with rate limiting and retries.
• Implement authentication and authorization for service-to-service integrations.
• Collaborate with security, privacy, and data teams to ensure compliance.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Tools

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

JWT

mTLS

Job description

Ford is seeking a backend software engineer to design, develop, and operate scalable services used by millions of vehicles. You will broker API integrations, implement REST/gRPC interfaces, and ensure secure, high‑performing systems in a hybrid work model.

This role emphasizes collaboration with security, privacy, and enterprise teams across Ford's global platform. Candidates should have 3+ years of backend experience and proficiency in Go, Java, or Python.