Senior Software Engineer: Cloud & Microservices Leader

Lincoln Motor Company; Providence (RI); Remote; USD 133,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Ford Motor Company is seeking a senior software engineer to own end-to-end delivery of cloud-based services powering critical customer experiences within the connected vehicle platform. You will drive reliability, observability, and performance improvements across distributed systems while providing technical leadership and architectural guidance.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and operations teams, and design scalable, secure solutions in a demanding, modern AWS-based

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical work experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating distributed microservices.
• 8+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot development.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Kafka and real-time data streaming architectures.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, primarily AWS with openness/exposure to GCP.
• 3+ years of experience with API design and development (REST, gRPC, JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger).
• 3+ years of experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Concourse, GitHub).
• 3+ years of operational experience with monitoring, telemetry, and incident response tools (Grafana, Dynatrace, DataDog, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, PagerDuty).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of software services powering critical customer experiences, as well as the platform infrastructure that supports them.
• Act as a domain owner for critical services, proactively identifying and mitigating risks, leading root-cause analysis for high-severity incidents, and driving long-term reliability, observability, and performance improvements across the platform.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for complex, distributed systems within the device connectivity platform, influencing design decisions, setting engineering standards, and ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, and secure.
• Mentor other engineers, contribute to technical reviews, knowledge sharing, and best practices, while partnering closely with product, operations, and cross-platform teams to align technical execution with business and regulatory priorities.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Kafka

PostgreSQL

gRPC

REST

AWS

CI/CD

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Concourse

ArgoCD

Grafana

Dynatrace

DataDog

OpenTelemetry

VictoriaMetrics

Prometheus

Job description

Ford Motor Company is seeking a senior software engineer to own end-to-end delivery of cloud-based services powering critical customer experiences within the connected vehicle platform. You will drive reliability, observability, and performance improvements across distributed systems while providing technical leadership and architectural guidance.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and operations teams, and design scalable, secure solutions in a demanding, modern AWS-based