Software Distributed Systems Engineer, Energy Software Hill

What to Expect

Do you want to work on Tesla's IoT platforms that support Powerwall, Megapack, Solar Roof, Supercharger, Autobidder, and Virtual Power Plants? Do you want to work with functional programming, streaming data, and distributed systems? Do you want to work with Scala, Akka, Reactive Streams, Influx

DB, Postgre

SQL, and Kubernetes?

Tesla is looking for Software Engineers to build the cloud services that power these products, driving the worldwide transition to sustainable energy. These platforms provide real-time monitoring, optimization, and control of distributed, renewable-energy assets, including generation, storage, grid services, and electric vehicle charging. You must enjoy thinking in systems and working on challenges related to the availability, reliability, scalability, and security of distributed software systems.

• Design, develop, maintain, and operate distributed software systems that incorporate real-time and streaming data for the monitoring, aggregation, and control of millions of IoT devices
• Characterize complex problems related to the scalability, reliability, performance, and security of production systems
• Test the performance, scalability, and reliability of software systems at scale, including developing the services to support this testing
• Provide technical leadership, foster collaboration, and drive initiatives to completion
• Maintain the values of the team which include engineering excellence, curiosity, a bias for action, self-awareness, inclusivity, and vulnerability

• Several years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
• Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services
• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in Akka or Scala preferred
• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions
• Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud

Tesla is an Equal Chance / 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.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.