Staff Software Engineer, Communications Platform

What You'll Do

• Design, develop and support applications and backend systems under the team’s scope, including customer communications, AI chat bots, customer graph databases, campaign management, and features accessible through mobile app, etc.
• Write clean, maintainable, performant, and well-tested code to implement new features and fix bugs.
• Write unit tests, integration tests, and work with QA to coordinate timely regression for new features.
• Monitor live system metrics, respond to alerts, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Investigate and understand existing system technical functionality and propose technical improvements.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to plan and prioritize new feature development.
• Communicate changes in project estimates, dependencies, and blockers with affected stakeholders quickly.
• Own feature development and projects through design, development, testing, release and production.
• Understand and improve the scalability, maintainability, availability, and visibility of applications.
• Be flexible and quick to respond to changing business priorities and requirements.
• Document newly implemented technologies and application functionality.
• Learn new technologies, practices, and business concepts to solve new problems as Tesla grows.
• Work with technologies such as Go, Java, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and LLMs.

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Expert knowledge of REST APIs
• Experience with microservices, or service oriented architecture
• Experience with databases (either SQL or NoSQL)
• Good unit testing and integration testing practices
• Experience with message queue architecture
• Experience writing code in Go, Java or Python
• Experience working with open source technologies such as Kafka, Debezium, Elasticsearch, Docker and Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM Software Development Process

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 options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program

Expected Compensation

$140,000 - $300,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits