Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), S3 storage
Tesla · Posted Nov 3
Electric vehicles, solar panels, and integrated clean energy storage solutions
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About the role
Tesla's storage engineering function operates petabyte-scale S3 object storage that supports data engineering, AI, and energy teams, with fleets scaling toward 150 PB+ and a 99.99%+ uptime target. The role owns reliability, capacity planning, incident response, automation, and security/compliance for these S3 storage clusters. The engineer also builds infrastructure-as-code tooling, optimizes performance and cost tiering, and mentors junior engineers on object storage best practices.
What you will do
- System Reliability and Monitoring: Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and automation for S3 storage clusters to achieve 99.99%+ uptime. Use tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Catchpoint to track performance metrics, capacity utilization, and anomaly detection.
- Capacity Planning and Scaling: Forecast storage needs based on data growth trends (e.g., fleet expansion exceeding 80 PB) and proactively scale S3 buckets, lifecycle policies, and multi-region replication to support up to 150 PB+ capacities.
- Incident Management: Lead on-call rotations, troubleshoot storage-related incidents (e.g., data access latency, replication failures), and perform root cause analysis using methodologies like blameless post-mortems.
- Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain automation scripts (e.g., using Terraform, Ansible, or Python) for provisioning, configuring, and managing S3 resources, including security policies, encryption, and access controls.
- Performance Optimization: Optimize data ingestion, retrieval, and archival processes to handle high-throughput workloads, reducing costs through intelligent tiering (e.g., S3 Intelligent-Tiering) and data compression.
- Security and Compliance: Ensure storage systems comply with data protection standards (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2), implementing features like bucket policies, versioning, and encryption at rest/transit.
- Collaboration and Innovation: Work with data engineering, AI, and energy teams to integrate S3 with other systems (e.g., Kubernetes, Spark). Contribute to open-source tools or internal projects for advanced storage solutions.
- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Maintain runbooks, contribute to knowledge bases (e.g., in Confluence), and mentor junior engineers on best practices for object storage reliability.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience: 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering roles, with at least 3 years focused on AWS S3 or similar object storage (e.g., GCS, Azure Blob). Proven track record managing large-scale (PB-level) storage systems.
- Technical Skills:
- Expertise in AWS services (S3, EC2, Lambda, CloudWatch) and infrastructure tools (Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker).
- Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, Go, Bash) for automation and tooling.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, and storage concepts (e.g., eventual consistency, CRR/SRR replication).
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
- Soft Skills: Excellent problem-solving abilities, strong communication skills, and a collaborative mindset. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
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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