Staff Software Engineer, Sales Management Platform

Tesla is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Sales Management Platform team and lead technical strategy for systems that sales advisors worldwide rely on every day. SMP is Tesla's in-house CRM-powering lead conversion, demand generation, order creation, pre-order guidance, and sales activity management across Vehicle (B2C & B2B), Home Energy, Charging, Commercial, and more.

You will architect scalable backend services, real-time data pipelines, and AI-assisted experiences that reduce friction for advisors and partner teams. You'll collaborate with Product, QA, Support, and engineering partners across Tesla platforms, while helping evolve SMP for new products and Tesla's broader AI transformation.

• Lead architecture and delivery of high-availability SMP backend services spanning APIs, data models, search, dashboards and event-driven pipelines
• Design and maintain integrations with other systems to support multi-market sales complexity
• Drive AI-first initiatives to automate advisor and internal workflows and reduce operational toil
• Implement reliable orchestration and human-in-the-loop patterns where automation and exception handling must coexist
• Mentor junior and senior engineers; raise the bar on system design, code quality, and platform standards
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure solutions align with product goals, operational needs, and advisor impact
• Strengthen reliability and observability through tracing, logging, and metrics for performance, data quality, and rapid incident response
• Identify opportunities where backend, data, and AI trends can improve scale, automation, and developer experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and operating production distributed systems at scale
• Strong proficiency in modern backend languages, with preference forGo (Golang)and/orPython
• Solid CS fundamentals plus experience with CI/CD (Jenkins, Argo), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
• Hands-on experience with Postgres, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Redis, and event-driven systems (Kafka and/or RabbitMQ)
• Experience building AI agents or integrating LLMs/agentic workflows into production applications (e.g., OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex)
• Proven ability to architect high availability microservices and influence technical direction across teams
• Track record delivering mission-critical systems with global-scale complexity and high-uptime requirements

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

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.