Sr. Software Engineer, Workflow Automation Platform

What To Expect

You will join the workflow automation team, building a multi-tenant platform that powers business-critical processes for teams across Tesla. You will help re-architect the platform from the ground up so it can serve many tenants at Tesla scale, covering event ingestion, tenant execution engines, deployment orchestration, validation services and the management UI. We are looking for engineers who think in systems and design for the next tenant, not just the one in front of them.

• Design and build services across the platform, including event abstraction, tenant execution engines, deployment orchestration, graph validation and the management API layer
• Migrate workloads off the legacy engine onto new tenant engines, one tenant at a time, without disrupting production
• Decompose database hotspots and decide what belongs in a relational store versus an event log, cache, document store or dedicated service
• Own event flow correctness across Kafka and Rabbit
  
  MQ, including routing, idempotency, replay and tenant isolation
• Use LLMs and AI coding tools daily for prototyping, code generation, refactoring and debugging while taking full ownership of every line that ships
• Communicate blockers, risks and scope changes early so problems surface before they become incidents
• Document architecture decisions and tradeoffs so the team operates from a shared model

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent experience
• Proven ability to reason about a distributed system end-to-end, including event flow, failure modes, blast radius, coupling and ownership boundaries
• Working knowledge of distributed systems concepts such as eventual consistency, idempotency, message delivery guarantees, partial failure, back pressure and observability
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ or equivalent event‑driven infrastructure, including consumer groups, dead‑letter handling and schema evolution
• Experience scaling relational databases past their comfortable limits, with judgment on when to shard, denormalize or move data to a different store
• Multi‑tenant platform experience with isolation, fairness and per‑tenant configuration treated as core design concerns
• Daily use of LLM coding tools such as Claude, Cursor or Copilot, with the ability to read every diff, identify code that looks correct but is not, correct or rewrite the model's output and own the result
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to raise issues quickly, defend a design choice and ask what problem is being solved before deciding how to implement it
• Java, .NET, Camunda, Spring Cloud Config, Docker and MySQL experience preferred but not required

• Medical plans plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family‑building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High‑Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short‑term and long‑term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back‑up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program

$168,000 - $252,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits