Staff Software Engineer, Core Services

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Staff Software Engineer, Core Services

| Job Category | Engineering & Information Technology | | Location | Fremont, California | | Req. ID | 268649 | | Job Type | Full-time |

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 plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

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