Sr. Data Engineer, Supply Chain

What To Expect

The Supply Chain Analytics & Engineering team is seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer to design and optimize scalable data pipelines, ensuring efficient data ingestion, transformation, and access for analytics. This role will be responsible for developing ETL workflows, optimizing Airflow orchestration, improving database performance, and integrating APIs for data ingestion and serving. The ideal candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive data-driven decision-making, ensuring high-quality, scalable data infrastructure in Tesla’s fast-paced environment.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines for efficient data ingestion and transformation
• Optimize Airflow workflows and automate ETL processes to improve reliability, efficiency, and performance
• Develop and maintain database schemas, ensuring efficient storage, retrieval, and query optimization
• Build API integrations to ingest external data sources and provide structured access for analytics teams
• Maintain and monitor data infrastructure for scalability and fault tolerance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align data solutions with business needs

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information System, and evidence of exceptional ability or equivalent experience
• 3-5 years of work experience in Data Engineering, designing, and optimizing ETL pipelines in large-scale environments
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data processing, automation, and query optimization in production systems
• Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow) to automate and scale data pipelines
• Strong understanding of database performance tuning in PostgreSQL or other relational databases, including indexing, partitioning, normalization, and query optimization
• Experience working with containerized infrastructure using Kubernetes and implementing CI/CD automation with tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with API integrations for data ingestion and structured data serving, ensuring scalability and security

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical plans, dental, vision, and flexible spending accounts
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Sick and vacation time
• Paid holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits such as critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight loss and tobacco cessation programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program

Pay

Expected Compensation $120,000 - $216,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits