Senior Software Engineer, Cloud-Native Microservices

Lincoln Motor Company; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 133,000 - 251,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave & family care programs

Vehicle discount program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Ford Motor Company seeks a senior software engineering leader to own end-to-end delivery of critical cloud and microservices platforms. You will act as a domain owner, drive reliability and observability, and provide architectural guidance across distributed systems for vehicle connectivity services.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and operations, and shape the roadmap for scalable, secure, and efficient cloud-native solutions in a leadership role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical work experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and operating production-grade 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) including primary/secondary on-call rotations.

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

Software engineering

Java & Spring Boot

Kafka & streaming

Cloud infra AWS

API design REST/gRPC

PostgreSQL & CI/CD

Monitoring & incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Concourse

ArgoCD

GitHub

Grafana

Dynatrace

DataDog

OpenTelemetry

VictoriaMetrics

Prometheus

PagerDuty

Job description

Ford Motor Company seeks a senior software engineering leader to own end-to-end delivery of critical cloud and microservices platforms. You will act as a domain owner, drive reliability and observability, and provide architectural guidance across distributed systems for vehicle connectivity services.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and operations, and shape the roadmap for scalable, secure, and efficient cloud-native solutions in a leadership role.