Platform Engineer

Jobtailor; Dearborn (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ford Credit Platform Engineering builds shared services, APIs, and developer tooling that empower hundreds of engineers to deliver value safely and quickly. As a Software Engineer on our Platform Engineering team, you’ll design and build production-grade APIs and internal tools, write code, and own deployment reliability.

You’ll work with cloud-native delivery, CI/CD, and observability practices to improve systems based on real-world usage.

Qualifications

• Production services/APIs design, implementation, testing, and operations.
• Knowledge of at least one backend language and modern API practices.
• API lifecycle management including versioning, backward compatibility, pagination, and error modeling.
• Strong testing discipline (unit/component/integration tests) and safe refactoring.
• Familiarity with cloud-native delivery: containers, CI/CD, cloud environments.
• Ability to debug across layers (application, runtime, platform) using logs/metrics/traces.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality APIs and internal developer tools that have measurable impact.
• Write production code and automate delivery while maintaining reliability in production.
• Own the reliability of what you build and continuously improve based on real-world usage.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Testing

Cloud-native

Debugging

Tools

CI/CD

Containers

Job description

• 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

• 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.