Staff Site Reliability Engineer, S3 Storage

Join Tesla's Storage Infrastructure team as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on building and operating exabyte scale on-premises object storage systems that expose the AWS S3 API. You will own critical components that provide object storage, archive storage, bucket migration, and high-availability data management across thousands of servers. This role combines deep systems engineering, large-scale distributed database expertise and modern software development in Rust to ensure Tesla's massive datasets remain reliable, performant, and cost-effective. What You'll Do

• Be a member of Tesla's storage team that is responsible for providing archive storage and bucket moving capabilities for Tesla's on-prem object storage, while leveraging the AWS S3 API
• Help manage large-scale data (exabytes) on multiple types of storage devices
• Develop server software using Rust
• Deploy code that will be used by thousands of servers with high availability requirements
• Help implement database migrations with zero downtime
• Work on improving performance of database queries
• Debug and define new database schemas

• Strong knowledge of databases (Postgres is a plus)
• Strong software development experience, and experience working on large-scale projects
• Comfortable implementing database migrations with zero downtime (i.e., when transitioning between critical dependencies)
• Experience implementing sharding and partitioning

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

Expected Compensation $200,000 - $300,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits