What to Expect

Tesla is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Traffic Engineering team. This group builds, owns, and operates critical infrastructure services like DNS, Load Balancers (hardware & software), Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and Edge security services like WAF, BOT protection, & API Gateways. These services are foundational and used across the entire company, from manufacturing in Gigafactories to the Tesla App to our cars on the road.

What You’ll Do
Build, manage & develop Tesla’s global Edge platforms running on VMs, Kubernetes & Baremetal
Develop control planes for infrastructure services like CDN, Envoy, and API Gateways
Edge compute capacity planning and forecasting
Tackle issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, network and application
Perform analysis, troubleshooting, and introspection on edge & core infrastructure components
Partner with teams from across the organization to help tackle hard problems
Drive reliability standards of Edge platform to guarantee 99.99% uptime
What You’ll Bring
Proficiency with Python, Rust or Golang  
Deep understanding of HTTP/S, TCP, SSL/TLS, BGP/BFD and DNS
Experience in interacting with platforms and services/micro-services using gRPC/RPC framework
Experience scaling & operating distributed systems (Consul, etcd) and implementing advanced traffic shaping techniques with eBPF

Expert understanding of Linux systems/sub-systems and services
Expert in systems & application design, including building and testing production-grade software
Experience with load balancers such as F5, Nginx, Envoy, HAProxy
5+ years of experience in software engineering as well as various aspects of service design including messaging protocols & behavior, caching strategies and software design practices
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or proof of exceptional skills in related field or equivalent experience

Fremont, California

Full time