Senior Director, Developer Experience and Platform Engineering

🕒 March 12

🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

🚗 Transport

🔧 Hardware

👥 B2C

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $3G Post IPO debt on 2025-08

Transport • Hardware • B2C

Ford Motor Company is a global automotive manufacturer that designs, engineers, produces, markets, and services a wide range of passenger cars, SUVs, trucks, commercial vehicles, and electrified vehicles. The company operates vehicle sales through dealer networks and direct digital channels, provides financing and insurance services (Ford Credit, Ford Insure), offers connected vehicle software and services (SYNC, Ford app, BlueCruise), and supplies parts, service, and fleet solutions through Ford Pro. Ford also invests in electrification, battery manufacturing, and sustainability initiatives while maintaining substantial manufacturing and R&D operations worldwide.

📋 Description

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Developer Experience platforms, including: • Developer portals and internal platform products • CI/CD pipelines and code delivery systems • Container-based developer and runtime environments, including orchestration and lifecycle management • API platforms, service templates, and established “golden paths” • Observability, reliability, and operational tooling • Lead DevX platforms as products, with: • Clear ownership and accountability • Roadmaps informed by real developer needs • Defined reliability, security, and service expectations • Act as a hands-on technical leader: • Review architecture, designs, and system patterns • Apply practical engineering judgment to platform and tooling decisions • Make informed trade-offs across scalability, security, reliability, and usability • Define and own a multi-year Developer Experience strategy aligned with: • Automotive and industrial software delivery constraints • Safety, security, and regulatory requirements • Operating at scale across global regions, time zones, and organizational boundaries • Use DevX KPIs and survey insights to inform platform, tooling, and investment decisions • Define, own, and continuously evolve Developer Experience KPIs that measure productivity, reliability, code quality, delivery performance, and developer sentiment. • Lead the responsible application of AI across the software development lifecycle, integrating AI-assisted capabilities such as: Code authoring, refactoring, and modernization assistance.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, including: • Significant hands-on development, system design, and production operations experience • Direct involvement in building and operating complex, distributed systems • Demonstrated ability to apply prior engineering experience to platform architecture, code delivery, and technical strategy • Deep expertise in: • Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including production operations at scale • Container-based platforms and orchestration technologies • CI/CD systems, developer tooling, and code delivery pipelines • Polyglot software architectures and modern application frameworks • Observability, reliability, and SRE practices • Strong working knowledge of: • Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Multi-cloud and hybrid architecture trade-offs • Solid understanding of: • Secure software supply chains • Compliance and regulatory requirements common in automotive environments • An engineering-first leader who has grown from hands-on engineer to senior technical leader • Leads through technical depth, architectural judgment, and delivery experience • Comfortable operating at: • Executive-level strategy discussions • Deep technical and architectural detail • Experienced in leading platform or infrastructure engineering organizations building real, production systems • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage • Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up childcare 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.