Software Engineer, Backend, Factory Software
Tesla — Electric vehicles, energy & autonomy
About the role
What To Expect
You will work in the design, development, and deployment of applications to automate and enhance financial inventory and costing processes within Tesla's manufacturing systems. In this role, you are expected to take ownership of developing critical applications while solving complex problems and closely collaborating with cross-functional teams.
What You'll Do
• Identify requirements and develop/build new tools/applications from scratch
• Seek to understand all aspects of the applications (business and technical) and effectively contribute to improve them
• Continue to learn and apply relevant software development practices, patterns, tools, and technologies
• Design and develop high quality, scalable, and distributed web application and/or backend services
• Design efficient/cohesive database schemas
• Create Jenkins-pipeline/GitHub-Actions and configure application for Kubernetes deployments
• Design easy-to-use web interfaces following Tesla design heuristics
• Utilize rest-API to communicate with backend application
• Follow Tesla’s high standards for security-best practices in all development
What You'll Bring
• Degree in Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience building enterprise level server-client applications
• More than 3 years of experience
• Ability to solve open-ended and difficult technical problems with little guidance
• Good collaboration and communication skills
• Experience with C#, .NET, Golang and secure architecture design or SQL/MySQL is a plus
• Experience with Angular or React
• Expert knowledge of REST APIs and Microservice architecture, experience with Docker and Kubernetes; Queue processing experience (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Benefits
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
Expected Compensation
$140,000 - $210,000/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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What the index says about this role
- First seen by JobLarper — Aug 3, 2026, 4 days ago. Older postings collect hundreds of applicants — a tailored résumé matters more the longer a role has been live.
- No pay range in our index for this listing. Across 1,685 indexed Software Engineer roles in US that do publish one, the middle half sits between $185k and $285k, median $225k — JobLarper's read of the market, not a figure from Tesla.
- What Software Engineer roles ask for — across 10,230 indexed openings: REST/APIs (46%), Backend (42%), Cloud (38%), Python (38%), Go (25%). This posting names REST/APIs, Backend, Cloud, Go, Frontend.
- Tesla is hiring actively — 10 open roles indexed.
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