Senior Director, Developer Experience, Platform Engineering

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🚗 Michigan – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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Ford Motor Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1903

🚗 Transport

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-08

Transport • Manufacturing • Sustainability

Ford Motor Company is a globally renowned automotive company based in the United States, established by Henry Ford. The company is committed to building a better world where every individual has the freedom to move and follow their dreams. Ford is dedicated to innovation, with a focus on services, experiences, and software alongside its traditional vehicle manufacturing. The company is actively involved in sustainability initiatives and aims to meet ambitious environmental targets. Ford values service, community impact, and strives to combine business success with social and environmental responsibility. With a rich history of over 121 years, Ford continues to adapt and lead in the evolving automotive landscape.

📋 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 • Provide deep technical leadership across polyglot engineering environments, spanning modern backend, frontend, mobile, data, and distributed systems technologies • Apply strong understanding of multiple programming paradigms (object-oriented, functional, reactive, event-driven) to ensure DevX initiatives align with how engineers actually write and maintain code • Be accountable for core repository strategy and health, including: • Code organization and modularization • Dependency, version, and release management • Shared libraries, frameworks, and reuse patterns • Secure, compliant contribution and governance models • Embed Developer Experience into: • Incident management and postmortems • Reliability and SRE practices • Secure software supply chain initiatives • Change and release management • Ensure DevX platforms and tooling are: • Secure and resilient by default • Observable and operated with production rigor • Drive a culture of automation, self-service, and continuous engineering improvement

🎯 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

🏖️ 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.