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Senior Director, Developer Experience, Platform Engineering

Developer RelationsDeveloper RelationsOtherRemoteSeniorTeam 10,001+Since 1903H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Michigan

Posted

79 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Postgraduate Degree15 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureDistributed SystemsGCP

Job Description

Senior Director, Developer Experience, Platform Engineering

Ford Motor Company

• 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 • 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 • A broad and evolving technology landscape, spanning legacy systems through modern and emerging (“bleeding-edge”) platforms • Ensure DevX initiatives reflect real developer workflows, operational constraints, and production realities • Balance standardization and autonomy through well-designed paved paths that support consistency while enabling innovation • Define, own, and continuously evolve Developer Experience KPIs that measure productivity, reliability, code quality, delivery performance, and developer sentiment • Establish a ****DevX**** measurement framework that combines: • Quantitative engineering metrics (e.g., lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, recovery time) • Platform usage, adoption, and reliability signals • Regular developer surveys and qualitative feedback mechanisms to identify friction and unmet needs.

Job 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.

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.

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