Senior Software Engineer

Ford is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join its team in developing, enhancing, and expanding its suite of chaos engineering and observability generation tooling.

Requirements

• Write, configure, and deploy code in Go, JavaScript & Python that improves service reliability for existing or new systems
• Develop APIs (REST/gRPC), integrations, and high-performance backend services
• Champion test-driven development
• Write documentation: end-user documentation, ADRs/design, system analysis, runbooks, playbooks
• Design distributed systems in the cloud, preferably using Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Provide helpful and actionable feedback and review for code or production changes
• Drive repair/optimization of complex systems with consideration towards a wide range of contributing factors
• Lead debugging, troubleshooting, and analysis of service architecture and design
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Implement and manage suite of chaos engineering products written in Golang, JavaScript & Python
• Collaborate with development teams to enhance system reliability and performance, applying a platform engineering mindset to system administration tasks
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environments
• Participate in postmortem analysis and create preventative measures for future incidents
• Implement and maintain security best practices across our infrastructure, ensuring compliance with industry standards and internal policies. Participate in security audits and vulnerability assessments
• Participate in capacity planning and forecasting efforts to ensure our systems can handle future growth and demand. Analyze trends and make recommendations for resource allocation
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks through code profiling, system analysis, and configuration tuning. Implement and monitor performance metrics to proactively identify and resolve issues
• Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery plans and procedures to ensure business continuity in the event of a major outage or disaster. Participate in regular disaster recovery exercises
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases and documentation