Staff Site Reliability Engineer, S3 Storage

Description:
Join Tesla's Storage Infrastructure team as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on building and operating exabyte scale on-premises object storage systems that expose the AWS S3 API. You will own critical components that provide object storage, archive storage, bucket migration, and high-availability data management across thousands of servers. This role combines deep systems engineering, large-scale distributed database expertise and modern software development in Rust to ensure Tesla's massive datasets remain reliable, performant, and cost-effective.

Responsibilities:
Be a member of Tesla’s storage team that is responsible for providing archive storage and bucket moving capabilities for Tesla’s on-prem object storage, while leveraging the AWS S3 API
Help manage large-scale data (exabytes) on multiple types of storage devices
Develop server software using Rust
Deploy code that will be used by thousands of servers with high availability requirements
Help implement database migrations with zero downtime
Work on improving performance of database queries
Debug and define new database schemas

Requirements:
Understanding of modern object storage APIs (specifically AWS S3 API)
Strong knowledge of databases (Postgres is a plus)
Strong software development experience, and experience working on large-scale projects
Comfortable implementing database migrations with zero downtime (i.e., when transitioning between critical dependencies)
Experience implementing sharding and partitioning

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
$200,000 - $300,000/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.