Staff Software Engineer, Quality Engineering, Megapack

What to Expect

Tesla's Energy organization is scaling the future of sustainable power with Megapack, our utility-scale battery storage product built at Megafactory in Texas. The Quality Engineering team is standing up the next generation of real-time quality systems that detect, act on, and prevent defects the moment they occur on the production line. In this role, you will spearhead the software development that powers real-time quality at Megafactory — architecting event-driven data streams, real-time action engines, and the platforms that turn manufacturing and test data into immediate quality decisions. This is a pivotal, ground-floor role: you will lay the software foundation, patterns, and standards that future system teams will scale across Tesla Energy's growing global footprint.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate event-driven data streaming pipelines that ingest high-volume manufacturing, equipment, and test data in real time
• Develop real-time action systems that trigger automated quality actions
• Work with data engineers to architect scalable services and data stores to capture, process, and serve quality data with low latency and high reliability
• Deploy and manage containerized microservices on Kubernetes, ensuring high availability, observability, and horizontal scalability of quality-critical systems
• Own the full software development lifecycle with robust CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, code reviews, and design documentation
• Prepare and present system designs for Architecture Review Board approval, ensuring solutions meet Tesla's standards for security, scalability, and maintainability before production rollout
• Partner with quality, manufacturing, controls, and data engineers to translate quality requirements into production-grade real-time software
• Establish reusable frameworks, coding standards, and architectural patterns that enable future system teams to scale real-time quality software across Tesla Energy

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including delivering production-grade real-time or event-driven systems
• Expert proficiency in Python for building reliable, scalable back-end services and APIs
• Hands-on experience with data event streaming technologies such as Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time pipelines
• Strong database skills across SQL and NoSQL (e.g., MySQL, Microsoft SQL, ClickHouse)
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration and deployment
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and DevOps practices (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Experience presenting architecture and design proposals for review board approval and driving technical decisions across cross-functional teams
• Strong ownership, clear communication, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact manufacturing environment

Compensation and 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