Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering
Tesla · Posted Nov 3
Electric vehicles, solar panels, and integrated clean energy storage solutions
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About the role
Tesla's Platform Engineering team runs production critical workloads for every aspect of the business and sets platform standards for other engineering teams, operating a mix of on-premise VMs, bare metal hosts and public clouds such as AWS located around the globe. The team builds and maintains Kubernetes clusters using infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD and Helm and helps application teams succeed on the platform. This Site Reliability Engineer role will deploy and support applications with developers, manage Kubernetes clusters on-prem and in the cloud, improve platform stability, drive architecture and observability, and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
What you will do
- Hands-on with developers to deploy the applications to provide support
- Building new features to improve the platform in terms of stability & updates
- Manage our Kubernetes clusters on-prem and in the cloud to support our growing workloads
- Participating in the architecture design process and troubleshooting of live applications with the product teams
- Participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation
- Influence architectural decisions with focus on security, scalability and high-performance
- Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting
- Authoring technical documentation for workflows/processes/best practices
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience managing web-scale infrastructure in a production *nix environment
- Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently with an analytical mind with a bias for action
- Advanced or expert-level Linux administration and performance tuning skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience or evidence of exceptional ability
- Advanced experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible, Terraform or Puppet
- Demonstrable knowledge of the Linux operating system internals, networking stack, filesystems, resource scheduling and process management
- Exposure to AWS, or other cloud infrastructure providers
- Experience managing container-based workloads, using Kubernetes or other orchestration software in production (ArgoCD, Helm)
- Proficiency in a high-level language like Python, Go, Ruby and/or Java
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Tesla
Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company that designs, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles, battery energy storage systems, and solar panels. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company is dedicated to accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy through innovative technology and engineering. Its product ecosystem ranges from mass-market passenger cars and commercial semi-trucks to advanced energy generation and storage solutions.
- Industry
- Automotive
- Company size
- 125000+ employees
- Founded
- 2003
- Location
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $6.0B raised
- 2020-05-18Post Ipo Debt$5.0B
Leadership
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer & Director
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer
Senior Vice President, Automotive
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
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