Staff Software Engineer, Network Observability

Network Monitoring Platform ArchitectYou will design and build the backbone of Tesla's network monitoring platform, the systems that collect, store, query, and act on telemetry from tens of thousands of network devices across global sites. Metrics pipelines, alerting, device inventory, config management, and the APIs that feed both dashboards and our AI diagnostic system; you own all of it.This platform runs 24/7. When it's down, infrastructure is running blind. You'll own the architecture, the uptime, and the scaling challenges that come with it.

You will work closely with network engineering to understand operational needs, and with the AI platform team to ensure monitoring data is structured and accessible for intelligent diagnostics.ResponsibilitiesBuild metrics collection pipelines that pull data from thousands of devices: polling, streaming, APIs and land it in time series and log storageOwn the device inventory and topology system. Discovery, reconciliation, config tracking, change detection, kept accurate at scaleBuild and run the alerting stack. Threshold checks, baseline comparisons, anomaly detection, catching problems before they cascadeDesign the APIs that expose device state, metrics, alerts, and relationships to dashboards, CLI tools, and AI agentsBuild config management and automation tooling. Generate configs from templates, validate them, push them, roll back when things go wrongKeep the monitoring platform itself healthy.

Capacity planning, fault tolerance, storage lifecycle, data retention. Monitor the monitorsMake sure telemetry data flows cleanly to everything downstream, Grafana, reports, the AI diagnostic engineLead projects end-to-end. Design docs, code reviews, architecture decisions, mentoring. You're a technical leader, not just a contributorRequirements8+ years building and running production infrastructure software.

Not prototypes; things that page you at 2am when they breakExperience in Go, Java, C++, Rust, or Python. You've built services that sustain high throughput ingest and serve queries under loadDistributed systems are second nature; you know the real world tradeoffs of consistency, replication, partitioning, and backpressureYou've worked with time series databases (Prometheus, Mimir, InfluxDB, VictoriaMetrics) and understand what high cardinality metrics do to storage and query performanceYou've worked with MetricWeave or similar telemetry normalization frameworks for abstracting multi-vendor device dataYou've operated log aggregation at scale, Splunk, Elasticsearch, Loki, or similarYou're comfortable owning production, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, and instrumenting your own services so you know when they're sickYou can whiteboard a collection pipeline for 100K devices, point to where it'll fall over, and design around itYou've led technical projects from "we should build this" through to production and iterationCompensation & BenefitsBenefitsAlong 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 deductionFamily-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefitsDental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contributionCompany Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSAHealthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefitsCompany paid Basic Life, AD&DShort-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)Employee Assistance ProgramSick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid HolidaysBack-up childcare and parenting support resourcesVoluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insuranceWeight Loss and Tobacco Cessation ProgramsTesla Babies programCommuter benefitsEmployee discounts and perks programExpected Compensation $120,000 - $396,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefitsPay 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.