Tesla
Sr. Backend Engineer, Data Platform, Vehicle Software
Found: September 13, 2025
This role is based in Palo Alto, California.
Compensation:
$140,000 - $300,000/year plus cash and stock awards.
What you'll do:
- Build and improve scalable distributed systems.
- Develop back-end systems capable of handling hundreds of trillions of events per day.
- Collaborate with Data Engineers and data scientists to drive efficient solutions.
What you'll bring:
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Expertise in Rust, Java, Scala, Python, or Go.
- Experience with data technologies like Trino, Presto, and Kafka.
Tech stack:
Terraform, Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, Parquet, Presto, Trino.