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Staff Software Engineer, Core Services

Tesla · Fremont, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$200k–$300k/yrFull-time

The core services team at Tesla builds systems that orchestrate customer flows for robotaxi, charging, over the air updates, subscriptions, electric, lease/loan, roaming in charging, NACS and other ownership related products for both B2C and B2B customers. These systems are production-critical and directly impact customer experience, revenue, and need to be optimized for uptime and scalability.

What You'll Do

  • Own the technical direction and design for backend services integrating with internal and external platforms

  • Lead and grow a team of engineers: mentor on systems thinking, review technical approaches, and set the bar for quality

  • Write production code in Go — this is a hands-on technical leadership role, not a management position

  • Drive architectural decisions across the core services stack: Go, REST, gRPC, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Click house, MySQL, and Kubernetes

  • Identify opportunities to apply AI and machine learning to price optimization algorithms for Robotaxi, other products

What You'll Bring

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years focused on backend distributed systems

  • Demonstrated experience building and operating distributed systems in production - event-driven architectures, message brokers, service decomposition, and the operational realities of running them

  • Strong proficiency in Go; working familiarity with the broader stack: REST, Dotnet, gRPC, Kafka, SQL (MySQL), Docker, Kubernetes, and dotnet

  • Experience shipping systems into real production environments, not just research or simulation

  • Track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving technical decisions across teams

  • Strong product sense with the ability to understand user pain, domain constraints, and independently drive toward a better product

  • Experience with real-time or near-real-time systems - you understand latency, throughput, and reliability constraints

  • An AI-forward mindset with a drive to incorporate AI-driven approaches into product development, whether that is ML for price optimization, LLMs for tooling, or AI-assisted development workflows

Benefits

  • Competitive pay

  • Medical plans

  • Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits

  • Dental and vision plans

  • HSA Contribution

  • Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA

  • 401(k) with employer match

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plans

  • Other financial benefits

  • Basic Life, AD&D, Short-term and long-term disability insurance

  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

  • Paid holidays

  • Voluntary benefits

Expected Compensation

$200,000 - $300,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

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