Staff Software Engineer, Core Services - Fremont [268649]

$200,000 - $300,000 yearly

Job Description

Tesla’s core services team 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.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work on Robotaxi and Charging primarily. You will own the technical direction, write production code, and may lead a team of engineers while scaling the system to support more complex flows. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in backend systems with hands-on distributed systems experience, strong product instincts, and an AI-forward mindset.

This position is based in Fremont, CA.

The Role

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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
Anthony Antonucci

Qualifications

Relevant experience in Engineering & Information Technology; strong problem-solving skills; commitment to Tesla mission.

Immediate Fill

No