November 19, 2024

Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Design Technology

Senior • On-site

$140,000 - $300,000/yr

Palo Alto, CA

What to Expect

Every day, Tesla Engineers around the world use a variety of mission critical systems to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

The Design Technology Operations team builds the systems that power Tesla’s design infrastructure.

Due to the breadth of technology used by Tesla, the members of DT Ops team are technical generalists across the domains of performance engineering, test engineering, release engineering, systems engineering, security engineering, software engineering, and knowing how to quit vim. We develop automation in Go, but our codebase is comprised of Java, CS, JS / TS, Python, .NET, etc.

This position can be based in Palo Alto, CA, San Diego, CA or Austin, TX.

What You’ll Do
  • Build release processes for applications ranging from small microservices to huge monoliths spanning large clusters
  • Manage Kubernetes infrastructure across 3 continents
  • Measure and maintain site performance using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Catchpoint and Splunk
  • Participate in an on-call rotation, facilitating production and security incidents as Incident Commander, iteratively improving the reliability and performance of our stack
What You’ll Bring
  • Deep experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, able to drive root cause analysis of complicated system failures from database to browser
  • Comprehensive experience with containerization technology is required
  • Strong programming skills in, or a willingness to learn, Golang
  • Familiarity with basic Database administration is required (performing schema migrations, and understanding planner output)
  • Deep experience as a DevOps Engineer to automate all the test / release / deploy things.
  • Oracle Database experience is helpful but not required
  • Experience with 3DExperience is helpful but is not expected
  • Outstanding experience with Scientific computing or LIMS is helpful but not required
Compensation and Benefits
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

    Expected Compensation

    $140,000 - $300,000/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.