Tesla Looking For Site Reliability Engineer – Vision Automation (Palo Alto) at Palo Alto, CA Full Time

Tesla’s Vehicle Engineering team is currently seeking a site reliability engineer (SRE) to focus on improving our in-house manufacturing and supply chain computer vision platform. This role will contribute to many of our other purpose-built applications that automate and improve the process of designing, building, and delivering Tesla products, globally.

Tesla’s Vehicle Engineering team, in general, owns the centralized technical aspects of our multi-continent Gigafactory network and product line. The systems we work on include Tesla’s most important programs, such as Cybertruck, cell production, Robotaxi, and new factories. The software team is responsible for making these systems and operations every bit as intelligent and dynamic as the products themselves.

As a member of the Engineering Automation team, you will lead our efforts to deploy software in Texas, Berlin, and beyond. We are currently looking for an experienced SRE to scale our infrastructure to multiple datacenters, while improving our existing CI pipeline, CD flow, git-ops, and other devops-related tasks on our high-availability and data-intensive applications. In SCOA, engineers have the

ownership freedom to push forward their recommendations, experiment, and ultimately

drive new technology into the production line to positively impact the company and our customers.

Responsibilities

Derive functional (application) and non-functional (availability, performance, security, and maintainability, cost) requirements for global deployments and scaling needs

Collaborate with stakeholders across regions to understand deployment requirements

Deliver on deployment requirements with proactive monitoring tools and dashboards

Maintain existing infrastructure deployed both on AWS and private Kubernetes clusters

Recommend latest ops best practices, with a focus on automation

Write technical documentation and runbooks

Requirements

BS in Computer Science/related field, or equivalent industry experience

Fluency with tools for orchestration in AWS or a private cloud, especially with Kubernetes, using tools like Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, and Docker

Demonstrated ability to respond to production outages and implement long-term fixes

Familiarity with of machine-to-machine communication concepts, i.e., TCP/IP, web sockets, and RPC

Understanding of when to use and how to set up message brokers, e.g., Kafka and AWS Kinesis

Ability to choose the right storage system, e.g., relational DBs (AWS RDS for Postgres, CockroachDB), cache (Redis, Elastic Search), S3 (public and private clouds), time-series DBs (InfluxDB, Prometheus) based on the application need

Relevant experience with the Go/Python/JS or other programming languages

Employee Benefits

As a full time Tesla employee you will receive full benefits from day 1 for you and your dependents.

Kaiser and UnitedHealthcare PPO and HSA plans (including infertility coverage)

3 medical plan choices with $0 paycheck contribution

Vision & dental plans (including orthodontic coverage)

Company paid Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability

401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits

Employee Assistance Program, Paid Time Off, and Paid Holidays

Back-up childcare and employee discounts