Role
Data is deeply embedded in the product and engineering culture at Tesla. We rely on
data – lots of it – to improve autopilot, to optimize hardware designs, to proactively
detect faults, and to optimize load on the electrical grid. We collect data from each of
our cars, superchargers, and stationary batteries and use it to make these products
better and our customers safer.
We're the small but fast-growing team which is building and operating the big data
platform for the company. We collect massive amounts of IoT data, provide storage,
access, and high-volume processing. Our stack is built on top of open source
technologies, including Spark, Kafka, and related.
We're looking for a talented engineer to join us as a foundational member of the team
to deliver new and improved big data services and infrastructure. Your work will
affect many hundreds of Tesla engineers daily, as well as improving the functionality
of our cars, chargers, and batteries worldwide.
Responsibilities
• Employ and improve industry-leading, scalable, distributed open-source
technologies
• Build back-end systems from scratch that are capable of handling trillion+
events per day
• Facilitate operation of highly-available distributed systems at scale and across
multiple locations
• Facilitate others in deploying, operating, and extending upon your clean,
tested code
• Help define a platform that is highly leveraged, multi-tenant, and self-serviced
• Work with data engineers and data scientists to drive efficient solutions from
the platform
• Help define the data story and enable data-driven solutions at Tesla, both
technically and culturally
Requirements
• Strong programming fundamentals, particularly in data structures,
concurrency, and Java
• Deep understanding of a complex distributed system, such as Kafka, Spark,
HBase, ElasticSearch
• Have built and optimized highly available, scalable, distributed back-end
services
• Ability to break down and deeply understand complex problems and
communicate complex matters efficiently
• Strong problem solving skills, optimizing for the simplest, most robust yet
practical solutions
• Reliable, dependable, trustworthy, participating team member
• Smart but humble, with a bias for action
Nice to Have
• Proficiency in Python or Scala
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS
• Robust DevOps/SRE abilities