Distributed Systems Engineer, Autobidder Platform

7 Months ago • All levels

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Job Description

Develop and maintain distributed, highly available, low-latency services for the real-time Autobidder platform. This platform automates data ingestion, forecasting, optimization, market bidding, monitoring, and real-time energy dispatch for Tesla Megapacks and Virtual Power Plants (VPPs). Scale infrastructure to support hundreds of gigawatt-hours globally, ensuring performance, resilience, and fault tolerance. Build offline data platforms for model training and simulations. Collaborate with algorithm engineers and market operations. Design and develop resilient systems, working primarily with Scala, Akka, Kubernetes, and Python in a fast-paced Linux environment. Contribute to operational and engineering excellence.

Good To Have:

Familiarity with ETL pipelines
Model training workflows
Productionizing models for low latency

Must Have:

Design & develop highly available distributed systems
Develop offline tooling & simulation platforms
Expertise in Scala and Python
Experience with resilient systems (embedded/cloud)
Collaborate with multiple stakeholders

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What to Expect

In this role, you will develop and maintain distributed, highly available, low-latency services that power the real-time Autobidder platform. This platform provides automated data ingestion, forecasting, optimization, market bidding, monitoring, and real-time energy dispatch for a growing fleet of large industrial battery sites powered by Tesla Megapacks, as well as Tesla Virtual Power Plants (VPPs). You will play a key role in scaling our infrastructure to support hundreds of gigawatt-hours globally, ensuring performance, resilience, and fault tolerance at scale. In addition to working on the real-time platform, you will help building out our offline data platform for model training and simulations.

Our team is comprised of engineers who are passionate about distributed systems, scaling, and functional programming, working primarily with Scala, Akka, Kubernetes, and Python. We collaborate closely with algorithm engineers and market operations to rapidly iterate and improve the platform.

This role offers the opportunity to make a direct impact in the sustainable energy space while tackling complex engineering challenges.

What You’ll Do

Design, develop, maintain, and operate highly available distributed software systems
Design and develop offline tooling and simulation platforms
Develop systems and tooling that enable market operations at various levels of automation
Collaborate with algorithms engineers and trading analysts to deliver Autobidder solutions in new markets
Collaborate with algorithm engineers to design solutions around new algorithmic trading strategies
Contribute to a culture of operational and engineering excellence
Learn fast and have a bias for taking action

What You’ll Bring

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience
Excellence in two (or more) coding languages, e.g. Scala and Python
Proven ability to define and develop products, with expertise in developing and operating resilient systems (embedded and/or cloud)
Proven ability to work across the stack in a fast-paced Linux environment
Proven ability to collaborate and design software solutions with multiple stakeholders
A passion for sustainable energy

Preferred, additional (bonus) skills: