Software Engineer, Core Services

Position: Staff Software Engineer, Core Services
What to Expect

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.

What You'll Do

* 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

What You'll Bring

* 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

* Experience shipping systems into real production environments, not just research or simulation

* Track record of technical leadership: setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and driving technical decisions across teams

* Strong product sense with the ability to understand user pain, domain constraints, and independently drive toward a better product

* Experience with real-time or near-real-time systems - you understand latency, throughput, and reliability constraints

* An AI-forward mindset with a drive to incorporate AI-driven approaches into product development, whether that is ML for price optimization, LLMs for tooling, or AI-assisted development workflows

Compensation and Benefits

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

* 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

Expected Compensation

$200,000 - $300,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit…