Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Senior Software Engineer - Object Storage

Backend EngineeringUpdated on Nov 9

Full-timePalo Alto, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional experience in backend development with Go (Golang), including distributed systems and API development.
Experience building or operating object storage systems such as MinIO, Ceph RGW, NetApp StorageGRID, or similar S3-compatible platforms.
Experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, and query optimization.
Strong understanding of the S3 API specification and object storage semantics, including buckets, objects, access control lists, lifecycle policies, and versioning.
Experience with gRPC or similar remote procedure call frameworks.
Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including state synchronization, concurrency, eventual consistency, and data durability guarantees.

Responsibilities

Own and develop the Bucket as a Service control plane, including bucket lifecycle management, access policies, and quota enforcement.
Design and build S3-compatible APIs and abstractions that provide a consistent interface across multiple object storage backends.
Implement multi-tenant bucket isolation, ensuring strict separation of storage resources between organizational units and projects.
Build access control integration with the Tesla Cloud Platform identity and access management layer, including bucket-level and object-level permissions, service account access, and policy enforcement.
Develop storage quota management across project, tenant, and zone dimensions, with usage tracking and reporting.
Build full-stack features using Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, and React/Next.js for bucket creation, management dashboards, and administrative tooling.
Design and implement background jobs and reconciliation loops for state synchronization between Tesla Cloud Platform and the underlying storage backends.
Own the REST and gRPC API layer for all object storage endpoints, ensuring reliability and backward compatibility.
Collaborate with networking, identity, DNS, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated storage provisioning workflows.
Participate in the global on-call rotation for production storage services.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript for building production interfaces.

Category	Engineering & Information Technology
Location	PALO ALTO, California
Requisition ID	286874
Type	Full-time

Job Description

Tesla Cloud Platform (TCP) is Tesla's own cloud that powers virtual machine, metal, storage, and networking at global scale across multiple datacenters. As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Object Storage, you will own and build the control plane for TCP's Bucket as a Service, enabling Tesla engineers to create, manage, and operate S3-compatible object storage at scale across Tesla's on-premise infrastructure. This is not a managed storage vendor integration. You will build the control plane that abstracts multi-vendor object storage backends into a unified, self-service experience through TCP's portal and APIs. You will collaborate closely with compute, networking, identity, and infrastructure teams to deliver a storage service that meets the reliability and scale requirements of Tesla's mission-critical workloads.

Job Responsibilities

Own and develop the Bucket as a Service control plane, including bucket lifecycle management, access policies, and quota enforcement
Design and build S3-compatible APIs and abstractions that provide a consistent interface across multiple object storage backends
Implement multi-tenant bucket isolation, ensuring strict separation of storage resources between organizational units and projects
Build access control integration with TCP's IAM layer, including bucket-level and object-level permissions, service account access, and policy enforcement
Develop storage quota management across project, tenant, and zone dimensions, with usage tracking and reporting
Build full-stack features using Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, and React/Next.js for bucket creation, management dashboards, and administrative tooling
Design and implement background jobs and reconciliation loops for state synchronization between TCP and the underlying storage backends
Own the API layer (REST/gRPC) for all object storage endpoints, ensuring reliability and backward compatibility
Collaborate with networking, identity, DNS, and infrastructure teams to deliver integrated storage provisioning workflows
Participate in the global on-call rotation for production storage services

Job Requirements

5+ years of professional experience in backend development with Go (Golang), including distributed systems and API development
Experience building or operating object storage systems (MinIO, Ceph RGW, NetApp StorageGRID, or similar S3-compatible platforms)
Experience with PostgreSQL including schema design, migrations, and query optimization
Strong understanding of the S3 API specification and object storage semantics (buckets, objects, ACLs, lifecycle policies, versioning)
Experience with gRPC or similar RPC frameworks
Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: state synchronization, concurrency, eventual consistency, and data durability guarantees
Experience with React, Next.js, and TypeScript for building production interfaces is a plus

About the Company

Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

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, TX
Founded: 2003

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