Staff Software Engineer, S3 Storage

What to Expect

Join Tesla's Storage Infrastructure team as a Staff Software Engineer focused on building and operating exabyte scale on-premises object storage systems that expose the AWS S3 API. You will own critical components that provide object storage, archive storage, bucket migration, and high-availability data management across thousands of servers. This role combines deep systems engineering, large-scale distributed database expertise and modern software development in Rust to ensure Tesla's massive datasets remain reliable, performant, and cost-effective.

What You’ll Do

• Be a member of Tesla’s storage team that is responsible for providing archive storage and bucket moving capabilities for Tesla’s on-prem object storage, while leveraging the AWS S3 API
• Help manage large-scale data (exabytes) on multiple types of storage devices
• Develop server software using Rust
• Deploy code that will be used by thousands of servers with high availability requirements
• Work on improving performance, operational flexibility, and capacity

What You’ll Bring

• Understanding of modern object storage APIs (specifically AWS S3 API)
• Strong knowledge of databases (Postgres is a plus)
• Strong software development experience, and experience working on large-scale projects
• Experience in debugging large scale complex systems
  

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
• Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.