Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center & Network Infrastructure
Tesla Motors
Austin, TX, United States
16 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Intelligent Platform Management Interface
Border Gateway Protocol
Configuration Management
Computer Engineering
Data Centers
Data Visualization
Database Queries
Data Center Infrastructure Management (CIM)
Noise Reduction
Linux
IPv4
+22 more
IPv6
Python (Programming Language)
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Network Architecture
Routing
Reliability Engineering
Ansible
Prometheus
Shell Script
SQL Databases
Data Logging
Load Balancing
Computer Network Operations
Grafana
Juniper
Information Technology
Palo Alto Networks
Bare Metal
Data Analytics
Splunk
Cisco
Job description
You will minimize manual toil through advanced automation, drive operational excellence through blameless postmortems, and proactively mitigate infrastructure risks. As a senior engineer, you will lead high-impact projects, mentor peers by example, and foster continuous improvement across the global SRE organization. What You’ll Do
- Enhance Telemetry Platforms: Scale observability, logging, and alerting systems using Grafana, Splunk, and Prometheus
- Build Correlated Dashboards: Design visualization tools that connect server health, network telemetry, and facility power/cooling performance across fragmented data sources
- Drive Data Insights: Write complex SQL and SPL queries to analyze infrastructure trends, isolate production bottlenecks, and surface environmental health insights via IPMI interfaces
- Eliminate Manual Toil: Develop robust automation scripts and tooling to handle hardware incident triage, alert noise reduction, and log correlation
- Manage Source of Truth: Maintain and scale Netbox inventory systems, building automated API pipelines to track physical layout, device lifecycles, and cable topologies
- Standardize Operational Playbooks: Create and maintain high-quality runbooks, KB articles, and SOPs to enable bot-assisted incident resolution
- Lead Incident Response: Participate in high-severity infrastructure on-call rotations, directing rapid triage, mitigation, and root cause analysis (RCA) for server, network, and facility anomalies
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with architecture, deployment, hardware engineering, and facility operations teams to ensure new implementations are supportable and monitored from day one
- Optimize Performance: Continuous monitoring of network and infrastructure performance to execute sustainability and optimization changes
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), network operations, or data center infrastructure management across highly distributed, large-scale environments
- Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Shell scripting, combined with configuration management frameworks like Salt or Ansible
- Observability Expertise: Deep production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, and Splunk for enterprise metrics and logging
- Strong SQL skills (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and a proven track record of consuming and building RESTful APIs to integrate infrastructure tooling
- Advanced Linux system fundamentals paired with hands-on experience provisioning, troubleshooting, and managing bare-metal enterprise server architectures
- Deep understanding of TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, BGP, EVPN, VxLAN, Segment Routing, and load balancing
- Experience managing enterprise hardware vendors like Arista Networks, Juniper Networks, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks firewalls, and F5 load balancers
- Practical knowledge of out-of-band management (IPMI), PDU architecture, and data center physical cooling systems (liquid cooling, HVAC, hot/cold aisle containment)
Benefits & conditions
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
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