Senior Observability Platform Engineer

In this position...

We are in search of a Senior Observability engineer to become an integral part of our Bedrock team. This pivotal role involves providing the infrastructure and tooling to help engineers understand and troubleshoot their services at scale.

This role will be responsible for our Observability stack and continuously improving systems to ensure high reliability and performance through unifying metrics, logging, profiling, and traces across Ford’s various business units.

As an internal developer platform, Bedrock empowers our service teams by providing managed cloud infrastructure, CI / CD, Observability, operational support, and innovative tooling.

Our goal is to expedite the development and deployment of cloud-based services that support our cutting-edge electric vehicle technology.

The Observability team at Bedrock builds the platform that all Ford engineers use to diagnose the health of their services at scale. The team’s scope includes :

• Logging
• Distributed Tracing
• Metrics Collection and Dashboarding
• Alerting
• Profiling
• Network Observability

You'll have...

• Bachelor Degree in Electrical, Computer or Software Engineering or related degree; or foreign equivalency degree, or a combination of equivalent experience and education.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of proficiency in at least one programming language : Go or Java
• 2+ years of experience building and observing scalable distributed systems.
• 2+ years of experience instrumenting cloud-based infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience working across multiple technical domains including back-end microservices and both internal and external-facing tools.
• Strong understanding of performance metrics.
• Experience driving adoption of new solutions and technologies within a large company.

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

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like : will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home?

Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder or all of the above?

No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including :

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

This position is a salary grade 8.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.