Tesla

What to Expect

In this role, you will focus on building components and infrastructure for a Tesla-scale metrics collection and querying service. You will be building large-scale data ingestion, storage, and retrieval systems. These systems will implement monitoring and alerting for mission-critical infrastructure across Tesla’s global network, and are critical for the observability essential to maintaining, scaling, and troubleshooting Tesla’s complex internal systems. You will work in a fast-paced team with a group of world-class engineers and data scientists to help build and deliver a performant, resilient and reliable service. You will be part of the team that is leading and driving core technology and systems innovation in this area, creating a positive impact on the business and observability industry as a whole. You will have end-to-end responsibilities across the entire engineering domain.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement and test new features in multiple projects and languages
• Maintain existing code in said projects, including bug fixes, performance improvements and refractoring
• Deliver code that meets the team's testability, readability, performance, observability and other quality standards
• Debug and fix issues in production and development environments, including, but not limited to: Performance problems, Logic bugs, Data issues and Operational problems such as networking or database issues
• Contribute to infrastructure improvements, automate busywork, simplify deployments, take advantage of Tesla's existing infrastructure
• Interact with internal customers to onboard them, clarify requirements, collect feedback and support field issues
• Provide mentorship and feedback to teammates, both junior and senior, in the form of code reviews, design reviews, brainstorming sessions, etc
• Participate in non formal on-call rotation and respond to incidents in a timely manner, resolving issues to minimize downtime & impact on users

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years industry experience in software development, with a minimum of 5 years in Internet-scale distributed systems or data platform system software engineering
• Proficient in at least two general programming language such as Python, R, C/C++, Rust, Java, or Go. Expertise in Go is an advantage
• Familiarity with Prometheus, PromQL, Grafana and OpenTelemetry is an advantage
• Expert knowledge of distributed OLAP databases, SQL query design, optimization, and data analytics
• A self-driven individual contributor and an excellent team player with a startup mentality is preferred
• Superb communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization, are essential to success

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

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