Software Engineer, Design Technology

Tesla's Vehicle Engineering department is made up of thousands of vehicle, battery, and manufacturing engineers. They handle the mechanical and industrial design of every major program, including batteries, Optimus, Robotaxi, and all new factories. Engineering Automation Software, part of Vehicle Engineering, builds the tools these engineers use.

As a Software Engineer on the Design Exchange team, you will build the backend services that deliver Tesla's engineering design data (parts, change actions, CAD files, and access decisions) to the internal applications that depend on it. Our APIs sit between Tesla's hardware design platforms and the long list of consumers across the design and manufacturing process. Optimus, Megapack, and every vehicle program rely on this data flowing reliably.

Joining our team means directly impacting Tesla's ability to communicate critical design data as the company scales to ship millions of products a year from factories around the world.

• Build gRPC and REST endpoints in Go that securely serve data to engineering and manufacturing applications across the company
• Integrate with Tesla's centralized authorization platform to evaluate attribute-based access policies for access control
• Extend our persistence layer (MySQL,Neo4j) so access and data lookups stay inside a low latency budget
• Migrate existing consumers off the legacy services onto the new platforms, without breaking them
• Own deployment, alerting, and runbooks for the services you build (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm), take on-call rotations, run incidents as Incident Commander, and write actionable incident reports
• Write and review design docs for new services, refactors, and technology choices
• Review code from teammates and give useful feedback
• Maintain accurate Jira tickets so the team can plan capacity, and collaborate with other teams to understand their needs and deliver solutions
• Help with hiring by running technical screens and giving the hiring manager real feedback in panels
• Excellent knowledge of at least one statically typed backend language (Go preferred; Java, Kotlin, C++, Rust , etc. experience transferable)
• Experience shipping backend services in production
• Strong understanding of REST and gRPC APIs and microservice architecture
• Comfortable with relational and graph databases, including schema design and efficient querying
• Proficient with Git and Docker, and with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Excellent written communication skills, including design docs and PR descriptions for async collaboration across time zones
• Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, or ArgoCD is a plus
• Experience with identity and access systems (OAuth, OBO, RBAC, ABAC, OPA) is a plus
• Experience with event streaming or workflow orchestration platforms (Kafka, Temporal) is a plus
• Exposure to PLM or CAD systems (CATIA, 3DX) is a plus. We will teach the domain regardless, but it cuts ramp time

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