Software Engineer, Tools And Frameworks

What To Expect
The Role
Tesla’s continued success depends on engineers being able to develop, debug, and deploy software quickly. Our web services, tools, and build infrastructure directly impact over 1000 vehicle, energy, and Autopilot software engineers. You'll be joining a small team located at the center of the firmware organization called Engineering Productivity, Build and Internal Infrastructure. This unique position exposes us to a wide array of interesting technical challenges and enables us to be the defenders of best practices such as code hygiene, reuse, and maintainability. As the brains of a whole organization, you will work on developer experience, build frameworks and high availability of tools, services, and computational cluster.
Join us, and besides helping every software developer, you will:

Push your first PR with your own code to a real Tesla vehicle in your first week (or day!)

Impact real world Tesla customers with faster and more reliable Over-the-Air updates

Make decisions on the real-world products delivered to customers

Help accelerate world's transition to sustainable energy!

We are a distributed team and hire in multiple locations:

Palo Alto, CA  

Bellevue, WA  

Austin, TX  

What You’ll Do

• Your primary focus will be working on frameworks that empower hundreds of Tesla developers to build code more efficiently, as well as accelerating Tesla's release workflow. 
• You will help us accelerate our release cycle from tens of releases a day to hundreds of releases a day by making decisions based on data and feedback within the organization. 

What You’ll Bring

• Strong Linux knowledge
• Excellent Python coding skills
• Have strong experience with any of the following: Bazel, Buck, Pants, SCons, QMake, CMake, Make, Ninja or similar build tools

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

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