Site Reliability Engineer – Observability Platform

Ford Motor Company

. Design and implement scalable observability pipelines spanning metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeRemote • Washington • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $85,400 - $192,900 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and implementing scalable observability pipelines, utilizing infrastructure-as-code for observability instrumentation, and applying automation to enhance application resilience and reliability. Proficient in cloud-native systems and observability best practices to optimize performance and mitigate stability risks.

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SRE ExperienceInfrastructure-As-Code (Terraform, ToFu)Programming (Python, Go, Java/Scala, C, C++)APM and Monitoring Tools (Dynatrace, New Relic, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus)Cloud Platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)

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Hard Skills

Observability PipelinesAutomationDestructive TestingPerformance AnalysisError BudgetsCI/CD PipelinesRESTful APIsMicroservicesSoftware DevelopmentAgile Methodologies

Soft Skills

Technical GuidanceCollaborationProblem Solving

Tools & Technologies

DockerKubernetesKafkaDataDogSensuNagios

Industry Keywords

Cloud-Native SystemsObservability StrategiesMTTD/MTTRNoSQL/SQL DatastoresJ2EE

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJ2EEJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesNoSQLPrometheusPythonScalaSplunkSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQLTCP/IPTerraformC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement scalable observability pipelines spanning metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
Define and operationalize SLIs and SLOs and establish error budgets
Build reusable infrastructure-as-code templates and frameworks for observability instrumentation and onboarding
Architect, design, and develop automation to improve application resilience, recoverability, availability, and scalability
Perform destructive testing to discover vulnerabilities
Develop tooling to improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market
Reduce or eliminate toil through automation
Collaborate with development teams to build and operate scalable, resilient, cloud-native systems
Identify stability risks and establish mitigation plans with engineering leadership
Review technical metrics including errors, response times, caching, capacity, and resource utilization
Conduct performance analysis and optimization of new and production systems
Solve complex architecture, design, and business problems by simplifying processes and removing bottlenecks
Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies and architectures
Troubleshoot distributed production systems and drive root-cause analysis for platform incidents
Participate in incident response, support, recovery, and postmortem analysis
Provide technical guidance and mentorship
Integrate AI/ML capabilities to enhance anomaly detection, alerting precision, and performance insights
Embed observability best practices into system design and deployment workflows

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
3+ years of experience in an SRE role
5+ years of programming experience with one or more of: Python, Go, Java/Scala, C, or C++
3+ years of experience building reusable infrastructure-as-code templates and frameworks in Terraform or ToFu
3+ years of experience with APM and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, New Relic, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Sensu, Nagios, Kafka, or DataDog
3+ years of experience with J2EE, NoSQL/SQL datastores, Spring Boot, GCP/AWS/Azure, and Docker/Kubernetes in developing multi-tier applications
Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices platforms
Working knowledge of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing, and load balancing
Strong proficiency with Google Cloud Platform and its library of services
Experience with automated, test-driven development in CI/CD pipelines
Thorough understanding of software development and agile methodologies
Understanding of, and ability to implement, effective observability strategies to improve MTTD/MTTR
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

Benefits

Comp & perks

Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
Flexible family care days
Paid parental leave
New parent ramp-up programs
Subsidized back-up childcare
Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments
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
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