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

What you'll do...

• Build the tooling to enable developers to emit events and metrics and interact with and reason about the telemetry in an effective and efficient manner.

• Build, deploy, and scale our Observability infrastructure based on OpenTelemetry.

• Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable and work with various teams to get those best practices applied

• Collect, aggregate, and visualize the collected metrics to provide actionable insight

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.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:

https://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD

This position is a salary grade 8.

Visa sponsorship is available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status. In the United States, if you need a reasonable accommodation for the online application process due to a disability, please call 1-888-336-0660.

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Requisition ID : 32625