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Sr. Backend Software Engineer, Account Master
| Job Category | Engineering & Information Technology | | Location | Fremont, California | | Req. ID | 256509 | | Job Type | Full-time |
What to Expect
Account master is the Tesla's centralized source of truth for customer and asset data, main focus on security, high-availability, scalability and performance. We build applications that manages all customer demographic information, address book, customer preferences and assets(Vehicle/Energy Products) owned by each account & their relationship (Owner/Driver etc) to the asset.
As a Software Engineer on this team, you will design and deliver the distributed systems that power real-time data flows across the organization, enable smarter decisions and seamless customer experiences. You will work with modern architecture, AI agents, to solve complex challenges that directly sha[e the foundation of every other product depends on. Our tech stack involves are Golang, Java, Python, Spark, MySQL DB, ClickHouse, ElasticSearch and Kafka, AI Agentic workflow.
If you're passionate about high-impact engineering and building platforms that matter, this is where you want to be.
What You’ll Do
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- Design, develop and support applications and systems under the team’s scope, including vehicle order processing, inventory vehicle purchasing, vehicle delivery experience, Tesla account login, software upgrades, and features accessible through mobile app.\
- Write clean, maintainable, performant, and well-tested code to implement new features and fix bugs\
- Write unit tests, integration tests, and work with QA to coordinate timely regression for new features\
- Monitor live system metrics, respond to alerts, and troubleshoot production issues.\
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to plan and prioritize new feature development\
- Own feature development and projects through design, development, testing, release and production\
- Understand and improve the scalability, maintainability, availability, and visibility of applications\
- Document newly implemented technologies and application functionality\
- Learn new technologies, practices and business concepts to solve new problems as Tesla grows\
- Work with technologies such as Go, C#, .Net core, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Mongodb, Redis, GraphQL, Python, React, Docker, Kubernetes
What You’ll Bring
\ - 6+ years of experience building backend systems\
- Demonstrated experience scaling systems to large data volumes and throughput\
- Expert knowledge of REST APIs\
- Experience with microservices, or service oriented architecture, AI agentic workflow\
- Proficiency in Go, Java, C, Python, C# or other backend language\
- Experience with databases (either SQL or NoSQL)\
- Good unit testing and integration testing practices\
- Experience with message queue architecture\
- Proficiency working in a high-impact, responsive, and collaborative team environment
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
$140,000 - $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 plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor, including veteran status and disability status, protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
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