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Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Distributed Systems Engineer - Energy

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/21/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Fremont, CA, USA
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Software EngineeringBackend Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Strong proficiency in C# (.NET Core/8.0) or Golang for backend services, plus Python for automation, tooling, and AI workflows, with familiarity in two or more additional languages demonstrating a polyglot mindset.
  • Deep distributed systems fundamentals, including event-driven architectures, eventual consistency, fault tolerance, idempotency, distributed transactions, CAP theorem trade-offs, and compensation logic.
  • Production experience with Kafka (CDC pipelines, schema registry, multi-region clusters) or RabbitMQ, including partitioning strategies, delivery guarantees, consumer group management, and backpressure handling.
  • MySQL/PostgreSQL schema design for complex hierarchies; query optimization with indexing; multi-region replication with data sovereignty; and MongoDB/NoSQL data modeling for high-throughput workloads.
  • RESTful API design, gRPC, service mesh patterns, API versioning, backward compatibility, and API gateway patterns with authentication, authorization, and rate limiting.
  • Hands-on workflow orchestration experience with BPMN/DMN using Temporal, Camunda, Airflow, or Cadence for long-running processes, stateful polling, event correlation, and compensation patterns.
  • Deep Kubernetes knowledge, including Docker containerization, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, feature flags) with zero-downtime migrations.
  • CI/CD pipeline development and operational ownership, including monitoring, alerting, on-call responsibilities, Prometheus/Grafana, distributed tracing (Jaeger/OpenTelemetry), logging, SLIs/SLOs, and incident response.
  • Experience building SI agents or integrating intelligent systems using OpenAI, HuggingFace, or LangChain, plus daily use of SI-assisted development tools and emerging SI automation technologies.
  • Redis or other caching technologies for performance optimization and session management.
Responsibilities
  • Design and implement scalable distributed systems and APIs supporting the complete Energy customer journey across Residential Energy, Commercial Energy, and Charging products for millions of customers globally with 99.99% uptime.
  • Architect event-driven microservices using Kafka/RabbitMQ, focusing on fault tolerance, exactly-once delivery, distributed tracing, CDC pipelines, multi-region routing, and schema evolution across 100+ microservices.
  • Own database architecture and optimization across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB for complex schemas and millions of records, ensuring sub-100ms query latency, multi-region replication, and data sovereignty compliance.
  • Build production-grade infrastructure for more than five million customers and 50,000+ installations annually, implementing circuit breakers, multi-layered retry logic, graceful degradation, idempotent APIs, and resilience patterns for high-value transactions with tight SLAs.
  • Develop SI-powered automation using LLMs and agentic SI to streamline customer workflows, including satellite imagery integration for site assessment, automated design-to-quote pipelines, intelligent BOM optimization, and zero-touch contract generation.
  • Architect workflow orchestration systems for long-running distributed processes spanning weeks to months using Temporal or Camunda, BPMN process engines, compensation logic, human-in-the-loop workflows, event correlation, and two-phase operations.
  • Design complex business logic engines, including multi-dimensional pricing with real-time tax calculations and compliance audit trails, multi-phase delivery orchestration with material allocation, and contract lifecycle management for 20–30-year service obligations.
  • Integrate with third-party systems such as solar manufacturers, utility providers, field operations, and manufacturing using industry-standard APIs, pull-based patterns, capability-based authentication, and rate-limited API gateways while ensuring data consistency.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, monitoring dashboards, alerting, and on-call rotation using Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, and logging, including feature-flagged deployments, correlation-based tracing, and zero-downtime migrations.
  • Lead technical initiatives from inception to production, define architectural patterns, drive API standards and large-scale migrations, mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices, and partner with product, design, field operations, finance, and manufacturing teams.

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Tesla makes electric cars and batteries that store power for homes and utilities, and it develops self-driving software and humanoid robots. In 2023, its Model Y became the first electric vehicle to rank as the world's best-selling car. Buyers order the Model 3 sedan, Model Y SUV, or Cybertruck pickup directly from Tesla instead of through dealers, and they charge on its Supercharger fast-charging network. It also sells Megapack and Powerwall batteries, runs a robotaxi service, and charges drivers a monthly fee for self-driving software that still needs their supervision. Tesla was founded in 2003, with Elon Musk as its lead early investor and a recognized co-founder, and it is based in Austin, Texas.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

2003

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What believers are saying

  • Sales are growing again: revenue rose 26% to $28.2 billion in the June 2026 quarter, after falling 3% in 2025.
  • Software adds income beyond cars: paid users of its supervised self-driving feature rose 56% to 1.48 million by June 2026.
  • Hiring is back: Tesla's headcount grew 7% to 134,785 by December 2025, after layoffs shrank it 11% in 2024.

What critics are saying

  • Growth isn't reaching profit: operating profit fell 57% to $398 million in the June 2026 quarter, a 1.4% margin.
  • Alphabet's Waymo is far ahead in robotaxis: Texas records in May 2026 listed 577 Waymo vehicles to Tesla's 42.
  • Stock grants have lost value: Tesla shares fell 17% in 2026 through October 8, after a December 2025 record.

What makes Tesla unique

  • Energy storage punches above its weight: Tesla's energy unit made 13% of 2025 sales but 22% of gross profit.
  • Tesla set the charging standard: Ford, GM and all major EV sellers in North America adopted its plug by 2024.
  • Robots are written into Musk's pay: his 2025 award sets goals of 1 million humanoid robots and 1 million robotaxis.

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Oct 22nd, 2026
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