Internship, Software Engineer, Data Platforms (Fall 2026)
Tesla · Palo Alto, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$40–$56/hrInternship
What You'll Do
- Employ and improve industry-leading, scalable, distributed open-source technologies
- Build back-end systems from scratch that are capable of handling trillion+ events daily
- Facilitate operation of highly available distributed systems at scale and across multiple locations
- Facilitate others in deploying, operating, and extending upon your clean, tested code
- Help define a platform that is highly leveraged, multi-tenant, and self-serviced
- Work with data engineers and data scientists to drive efficient solutions from the platform
- Help define the data story and enable data-driven solutions at Tesla, both technically and culturally
What You'll Bring
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science or a related field with a gradation date between 2026 - 2027
- Proficiency in Java, Python or Scala
- Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS
- DevOps/SRE abilities a huge plus
- Strong programming fundamentals, particularly in data structures, concurrency, and Java
- Understanding of a complex distributed system, such as Kafka, Spark, HBase or ElasticSearch is a plus
- Previous experience building and optimizing highly available, scalable, distributed back-end services also a plus
Benefits
- Compensation and Benefits
- Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans. Both have an option with a $0 payroll contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Medical Plan with HSA
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Basic Life, AD&D, and short-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
Pay
Expected Compensation $40.00 - $56.00/hour + benefits