Tesla · 2 months ago
Backend Software Engineer, Tesla AI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$132K/yr - $390K/yrTesla is a leading company in the automotive and AI industry, focusing on innovative solutions for remote operation and assistance for their robotaxi fleet and humanoid robots. The Backend Software Engineer will design and build backend infrastructure to support teleoperation at scale, collaborating with various teams to ensure high performance and reliability in controlling autonomous vehicles and robots.
AutomotiveElectric VehicleEnergyManufacturingRenewable EnergyTransportation
Responsibilities
Influence architectural decisions with a focus on security, scalability, reliability, and high performance across distributed systems
Design and build backend infrastructure to support teleoperation at scale, enabling control of thousands of autonomous vehicles and robots worldwide
Select and implement technologies that optimize for performance and cost efficiency, ensuring seamless scaling across Tesla’s growing fleets
Collaborate closely with AI, Firmware, and Autonomy teams to design and integrate backend components for future autonomy features and real-time control loops
Develop and maintain observability systems, including monitoring, metrics, and alerting, for complete visibility from device to cloud
Create robust, automated testing frameworks to ensure reliability, prevent regressions, and enable safe continuous deployment
Qualification
Required
Hands-on experience in application-layer development using C++, Go, and/or Python
Strong foundation in Linux systems, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
Experience managing and scaling databases and search technologies like PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Redis
Benefits
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
Company
Tesla
Tesla is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides electric cars, solar, and renewable energy solutions.
Founded in 2003
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$20.12BKey Investors
Societe GeneraleEuropean UnionPennDOT
2024-10-05Post Ipo Debt· $783M
2023-09-13Grant· $159.6M
2023-08-15Grant· $0.23M
Leadership Team
Vaibhav Taneja
Chief Financial Officer
Tom Zhu
SVP of Automotive
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