Sr. Software Engineer, Traffic Engineering

Tesla is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Traffic Engineering team. This group builds, owns, and operates critical infrastructure services like DNS, Load Balancers (hardware & software), Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and Edge security services like WAF, BOT protection, & API Gateways. These services are foundational and used across the entire company, from manufacturing in Gigafactories to the Tesla App to our cars on the road. What You'll Do

• Build, manage & develop Tesla's global Edge platforms running on VMs, Kubernetes & Baremetal
• Develop control planes for infrastructure services like CDN, Envoy, and API Gateways
• Edge compute capacity planning and forecasting
• Tackle issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, network and application
• Perform analysis, troubleshooting, and introspection on edge & core infrastructure components
• Partner with teams from across the organization to help tackle hard problems
• Drive reliability standards of Edge platform to guarantee 99.99% uptime

• Proficiency with Python, Rust or Golang
• Deep understanding of HTTP/S, TCP, SSL/TLS, BGP/BFD and DNS
• Experience in interacting with platforms and services/micro-services using gRPC/RPC framework
• Experience scaling & operating distributed systems (Consul, etcd) and implementing advanced traffic shaping techniques with eBPF
• Expert understanding of Linux systems/sub-systems and services
• Expert in systems & application design, including building and testing production-grade software
• Experience with load balancers such as F5, Nginx, Envoy, HAProxy
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering as well as various aspects of service design including messaging protocols & behavior, caching strategies and software design practices
• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics or proof of exceptional skills in related field or equivalent experience

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

Expected Compensation $168,000 - $252,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits