Sr. Software Engineer, Observability Data Engineering - Tesla Motors : Job Details

Job Category: Software Engineering

Location: Austin, Texas

Req. ID: 232735

Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect:

In this role, you will focus on building components and infrastructure for a Tesla-scale metrics collection and querying service. You will be building large-scale data ingestion, storage, and retrieval systems. These systems will implement monitoring and alerting for mission-critical infrastructure across Tesla's global network, which is critical for the observability necessary to maintain, scale, and troubleshoot Tesla's complex internal systems. You will work in a fast-paced team with a group of world-class engineers and data scientists to help build and deliver a performant, resilient, and reliable service. You will be part of the team that is leading and driving core technology and systems innovation in this area, creating a positive impact on the business and observability industry as a whole. You will have end-to-end responsibilities across the entire engineering domain.

What You'll Do:

• Design, implement, and test new features in multiple projects and languages.
• Maintain existing code in said projects, including bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Deliver code that meets the team's testability, readability, performance, observability, and other quality standards.
• Debug and fix issues in production and development environments, including performance problems, logic bugs, data issues, and operational problems.
• Contribute to infrastructure improvements, automate busywork, simplify deployments, and leverage Tesla's existing infrastructure.
• Interact with internal customers to onboard them, clarify requirements, collect feedback, and support field issues.
• Provide mentorship and feedback to teammates, both junior and senior, in the form of code reviews and design reviews.
• Participate in a non-formal on-call rotation and respond to incidents in a timely manner, resolving issues to minimize downtime and impact on users.

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years of industry experience in software development, with a minimum of 5 years in Internet-scale distributed systems or data platform system software engineering.
• Proficient in at least two general programming languages such as Python, R, C/C++, Rust, Java, or Go. Expertise in Go is an advantage.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, PromQL, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry is an advantage.
• Expert knowledge of distributed OLAP databases, SQL query design, optimization, and data analytics.
• A self-driven individual contributor and an excellent team player with a startup mentality is preferred.
• Superb communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization, are essential to success.

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