What to Expect

Come join a small team of experts building the Tesla’s data platforms powered by all Tesla products (vehicles, solar panel, batteries, chargers, robots, autopilot, insurance, etc.).

First Principles thinking is core of engineering culture at Tesla. Data is one of the key elements we use to understand and improve how our products work & interact with the world. Whether we use it to improve autopilot, optimize hardware designs, proactively detect faults, or even optimize load on the electrical grid. We collect data from each of our cars, superchargers, batteries, robots, manufacturing machines, as well as their environments and use it to make these products better, more reliable and cheaper to produce.

Our team is an integral part of the product organization, powering a cutting-edge platform that processes terabytes of IoT data daily, working with Engineering teams on making our products better in every way. From storage to access to data query, our platform allows users to get insight on raw and aggregated data seamlessly. Our highly automated stack is built on top of open-source technologies like Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, Parquet, Presto, and Trino.

We’re looking for a talented Engineer to join us and deliver new and improved big data services. Your work will affect many hundreds of Tesla Engineers daily, as well as improving the functionality of all of our products worldwide, and enable new data-driven products such as Tesla Insurance. Join us as we drive innovation in data processing and automation.

What You’ll Do
Build and improve industry-leading, scalable distributed systems
Build back-end systems from scratch that are capable of handling 100s of trillions events per day
Facilitate operation of highly-available distributed systems at scale and across multiple datacenters 
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
5+ years of Software Development Experience
Expertise in any of Rust, Java, Scala, Python, or Go. Rust is a plus.
Expertise with some core data technologies such as of Trino, Presto, Parquet, Hudi, Iceberg
Strong programming fundamentals, particularly in data structures & concurrency
Deep understanding of open-source distributed systems technologies such as Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, etc.
Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS
Have built and optimized highly available, scalable, distributed back-end services capable of handling terabytes of data

PALO ALTO, California

Full time