Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data Center & Network Infrastructure

Network Engineering & AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeFremont, CA, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, 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 such as Salt or Ansible.
Deep production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, and Splunk for enterprise metrics and logging.
Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL or 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, including Arista Networks, Juniper Networks, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks firewalls, and F5 load balancers.
Practical knowledge of out-of-band management using IPMI, PDU architecture, and data center physical cooling systems, including liquid cooling, HVAC, and hot/cold aisle containment.

Responsibilities

Own the reliability, automation, and observability of data center and network infrastructure, including bare-metal server reliability, power and cooling systems, and network fabric.
Scale observability, logging, and alerting systems using Grafana, Splunk, and Prometheus.
Design visualization tools that correlate server health, network telemetry, and facility power and cooling performance across fragmented data sources.
Write complex SQL and SPL queries to analyze infrastructure trends, isolate production bottlenecks, and surface environmental health insights through IPMI interfaces.
Develop automation scripts and tooling to handle hardware incident triage, alert noise reduction, and log correlation.
Maintain and scale Netbox inventory systems, building automated API pipelines to track physical layout, device lifecycles, and cable topologies.
Create and maintain runbooks, knowledge-base articles, and standard operating procedures to enable bot-assisted incident resolution.
Participate in high-severity infrastructure on-call rotations, directing rapid triage, mitigation, and root cause analysis for server, network, and facility anomalies.
Collaborate with architecture, deployment, hardware engineering, and facility operations teams to ensure new implementations are supportable and monitored from day one.
Continuously monitor network and infrastructure performance and execute sustainability and optimization changes.
Lead high-impact projects, mentor peers by example, and foster continuous improvement across the global Site Reliability Engineering organization.
Minimize manual toil through automation, drive operational excellence through blameless postmortems, and proactively mitigate infrastructure risks.

Category	Engineering & Information Technology
Location	Fremont, California
Requisition ID	285027
Type	Full-time

Job Description

<p>The Enterprise Infrastructure SRE team is seeking a seasoned Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, automation, and observability of our data center and network infrastructure. This role bridges network operations and data center facility infrastructure—including bare-metal server reliability, power/cooling systems, and network fabric—with a relentless focus on uptime, scalability, and user experience.</p><p>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.</p>

Job Responsibilities

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

Job 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)

About the Company

Tesla

Makes electric cars, robotaxis and grid batteries

Tesla makes electric cars and batteries that store power for homes and utilities, and it develops self-driving software and humanoid robots. In 2023, its Model Y became the first electric vehicle to rank as the world's best-selling car. Buyers order the Model 3 sedan, Model Y SUV, or Cybertruck pickup directly from Tesla instead of through dealers, and they charge on its Supercharger fast-charging network. It also sells Megapack and Powerwall batteries, runs a robotaxi service, and charges drivers a monthly fee for self-driving software that still needs their supervision. Tesla was founded in 2003, with Elon Musk as its lead early investor and a recognized co-founder, and it is based in Austin, Texas.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Austin, TX
Founded: 2003

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