Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Data Center & Network Infrastructure

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.

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.

• 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

• 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)

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

$168,000 - $360,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay 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.