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# Staff Software Engineer, Generative AI

- **Company:** Tesla Motors
- **Location:** Fremont, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Quality, Databases, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Message Broker, Networking Basics, Redis, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Reverse Proxy, Software Systems, WebSocket, Data Logging, Transport Layer Security, GitHub Copilot, System Availability, Grafana, Caching, Generative AI, Backend, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Vertica, Api Design, Terraform, Grpc, Dynatrace, Docker
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/87292466/1

## About the Role

* 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems
 * Strong, production-level proficiency in Go and Python
 * Deep expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in production environments
 * Hands-on experience with message brokers and event streaming systems like Kafka
 * Solid background with relational and analytical databases (Postgres, ClickHouse, or similar) and caching layers (Redis)
 * Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSockets, TLS, and reverse proxy architectures (Envoy)
 * Experience with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging, and distributed tracing
 * Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure-as-code (Helm, Terraform)
 * Proficient in leveraging AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development
 * Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and deliver in environments where standards are still emerging as well as a problem-solving mindset with strong attention to detail and a preference for simple, correct solutions over clever ones

## Description

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Bottlerocket team, you will architect and operate the backend infrastructure that powers Tesla's internal Generative AI platform. You will own critical, high-throughput services end-to-end and drive technical decisions across the stack. This role demands deep systems expertise, you will be solving hard problems around concurrency, reliability, and scale in a fast-moving environment where the playbook is still being written.
What You'll Do

 * Design, build, and operate production systems that handle high-throughput, low-latency workloads at scale
 * Own backend services end-to-end: from API design and data modeling through deployment, observability, and incident response
 * Drive architectural decisions for complex systems involving event streaming, caching, service mesh, and workload orchestration
 * Partner with ML engineers, product teams, and infrastructure teams to translate requirements into robust, scalable backend solutions
 * Mentor engineers across the team, establish engineering best practices, and raise the bar for code quality and system design
 * Lead capacity planning and reliability engineering to maintain high availability for business-critical services


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