SRE - Software Engineer

We are the movers of the world and the makers of the future. We get up every day, roll up our sleeves and build a better world -- together. At Ford, we re all a part of something bigger than ourselves. Are you ready to change the way the world moves

Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If you re looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape, enhance the customer experience and improve people s lives, this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

Ford is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and lead the development, enhancement, and extension of our global monitoring and observability platform.

Our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team enable modernization by providing robust SRE standards, IaC, monitoring tools powered by AI and easy-to-use dashboards. The resulting transparency of end-to-end performance provides a better view into how teams can proactively manage reliability and strategically apply automation.

As a SRE your role will combine software engineering and systems engineering disciplines to ensure that software systems are available, scalable, and maintainable This individual will play a pivotal role in shaping the evolving needs of our customers including development of Service Level Indicators and Objectives (SLI/SLO), best practices with associated templates, as well as automation to remove toil and facilitate adoption.

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field or a combination of education and equivalent work experience

• 5 + years of experience programming with one or more of the following: Python, Go, Java/Scala, C or C++.
• 3 + years of experience with APM or other monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Sensu, Nagios, Kafka, DataDog
• 3 + years experience with J2EE, NoSQL/SQL Datastore, Spring Boot, GCP/AWS/Azure & Docker/K8 in developing multi-tier applications.
• 2+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer including at least one SRE certification.

Even better, you may have...

• Master s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
• Strong proficiency with Google Cloud and its library of services
• Experience with automated test-driven development in CI/CD Pipelines
• Thorough understanding of software development and agile programming
• Understanding and ability to implement effective observability strategies to improve MTTD/R
• Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices platforms
• Working knowledge of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing and load balancing
• Solve complex architecture/design & business problems, work to simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, etc.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding

Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures

Help build our unified observability stack using tools such as Dynatrace or Splunk

Improve automation and increase the system s self-healing capability.

Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages

To excel in this role, you need:

A Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or a related field

Demonstrable experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar

Experience building software and computer systems using a variety of languages (C/C++/C#/JAVA/JavaScript/ Ruby etc.).

Expertise in Observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace

Knowledge of data analytics tool stack such as Alteryx tableau and qlik sense

Proficiency in CI/CD practices and Git tools

Knowledge of GCP cloud services is a plus