Site Reliability Engineer, Factory Software

Description:
The Factory Software team at Tesla is building applications to enable manufacturing and warehouse management with a strong focus on reliability, availability, scalability, speed, and security. We are a diverse team of Controls Engineers, Software Engineers, and other disciplines working on automated manufacturing and warehouse processes.
This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure (Kubernetes clusters, VMs, servers, and databases) and the software applications running on top of them. As an SRE on the Factory Software team, you will own the reliability of the full stack — from compute and data layers to the middleware connecting factory equipment (including PLCs) with MES systems and other services. You will implement advanced monitoring and observability to detect issues before they impact production. Your mission is to make both infrastructure and applications more reliable, observable, and standardized by catching speed bottlenecks, database contention, and infrastructure problems early while driving best practices and tooling consistency across teams.

Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and evolve end-to-end observability and telemetry across services and infrastructure, including OTEL instrumentation, logging, metrics, and distributed tracing
Build and maintain robust monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo, and related tools to proactively detect speed bottlenecks, database contention, resource exhaustion, and infrastructure issues
Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; standardize observability practices, golden signals, and tooling across engineering teams
Implement effective, low-noise alerting systems and drive strong incident response processes
Collaborate closely with Platform, Infrastructure, and Software Engineering teams to embed reliability and observability into the development lifecycle
Write production-grade code to reduce toil, automate operations, manage deployments, and treat infrastructure and reliability as a software engineering problem
Consult on infrastructure, systems, and application architecture with a reliability-first mindset
Participate in on-call rotations, live troubleshooting on NOC bridges/outage calls, and blameless post-mortems
Document solutions, create and maintain technical documentation, and actively mentor engineers across the organization

Requirements:
4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a closely related systems role
Working knowledge of Kubernetes and hands-on experience with Docker/containerization or virtualization
Strong understanding of Observability concepts with practical experience using Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo, and/or Splunk
Expert-level Linux administration skills
Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (routing, switching, VLANs, firewalls, and load balancers)
Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions is a plus)
Proficiency in at least one high-level language (Go, Python, or Java) with demonstrable experience writing production-grade code
Comfortable with on-call rotations and performing live troubleshooting during outages
Strong documentation habits and a track record of effectively sharing knowledge across teams
Strong bias for action — comfortable getting hands dirty, shipping solutions quickly, and learning from mistakes

Compensation & Benefits:
Benefits

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
$140,000 - $210,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefitsPay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.