Data Engineer Jobs

What To Expect
The Data and Analytics, Applications Engineering team drives business critical decision making, and ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution for all of Tesla. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with strong day-to-day operations and build capabilities to power hyper-growth.
As the Data Engineer, you will partner with members of the Data and Analytics team and its leadership in Applications Engineering to provide critical analysis operations to support our demanding and fast-paced environment where you will work on critical subsystems of an incredibly exciting product.
The candidate must be comfortable with data warehousing and ETL concepts with a strong hand on SQL & Python. To be successful in this role, you will need strong data engineering skills, excellent interpersonal communication, and experience building, optimizing and managing ETL Pipelines.
What You’ll Do

• Recommend solutions that adhere to industry standards, keeping in mind the impact on upstream and downstream system and stakeholders.
• Assist with implementation and maintenance of the internal Data and Analytics and reporting processes.
• Analyze the need for new applications or enhancements to the existing application to suit business needs and make decisions if they are needed or not.
• Identify potential process improvements and recommend implementation strategies.
• Research and keep abreast of rapidly evolving data requirements, ensuring necessary system and process changes are implemented to meet these requirements.
• Work on special projects related to data as assigned.
• Continuously improve SQL and python skills, helping you automate repetitive work and multiply yourself
• Develop and demonstrate expertise in communicating data related topics, including reporting.
• Closely monitor the project from inception to completion and assist in User Acceptance Testing.

What You’ll Bring

• Ability to support multiple on-going projects in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with writing Kafka consumers and producers.
• Passion for Tesla’s products and belief in Tesla’s mission to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy
• Strong experience with relational databases like SQL Server, MySQL and Vertica. NoSQL databases experience is a plus
• Experience Apache Spark Streaming and Hive is plus.
• Ability to explain Production / technical concepts and analysis implications clearly to a wide audience and be able to translate business objectives into actionable analyses.
• Superior business judgement – ability to flex between big picture thinking, understand and distill complex ideas, and analyze data to drive strategic objectives.
• Strong communicational skills, organizational skills, negotiation skills, and flexibility to address competing demands.
• 5+ years of prior experience Data Engineer.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability to design an effective solution.
• Experience with user-defined workflows (e.g., Airflow)
• Problem solver that is action-oriented with the ability to look at problems in new ways.
• Working knowledge of data management software like Airflow, or other ETL tools a plus.
• Experience with Tableau or any visualization tool, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling
• Must be proficient in SQL, Python. Automate repetitive personal tasks through Python and SQL

Experience with bug/enhancement tracking system like JIRA a plus.
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical 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 Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA

Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

LGBTQ+ care concierge services

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

Employee Assistance Program

Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary 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
$80,000 - $258,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits
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.
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