Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering (Kubernetes) (m/w/d) - Gigafactory Berlin - Bra[...]

Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering (Kubernetes) (m/w/d) - Gigafactory Berlin - Brandenburg

Job Category: Platform Engineering

Location: Gigafactory Berlin - Brandenburg

Req. ID: 238285

Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. We continuously develop revolutionary strategies and products within the shortest time and successfully launch them on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation, and efficiency.

Gigafactory Berlin forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this is our employees. Their passion, motivation, and engagement ensure that we consistently achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.

The Role

Tesla's Platform Engineering is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. As a member of the team, you will be building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters using infrastructure-as-code tools like Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, and Helm and helping the application teams to be successful on our platform. The underlying infrastructure is a mix of on-premise VMs, bare metal hosts, and public clouds such as AWS located all around the globe, which presents unique challenges and opportunities to work with different types of infrastructure technologies. A successful candidate will be expected to possess expert knowledge in Linux fundamentals, architecture, and performance tuning, as well as software development skills to match. Experience running Kubernetes in production will be a strong plus; we prefer Golang or Python for any automation or tools we have to build along the way. We are the team that runs production-critical workloads for every aspect of the business at Tesla and sets the standards for other teams, a group of well-rounded generalists that not only solve the hardest problems in the industry but also push other engineering teams at large to be better. Join us to get a chance to work with some of the best engineers in the industry for one of the most transformative companies in the history of both automotive and energy industries.

What You’ll 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
• Participate in the architecture design process and troubleshooting of live applications with the product teams
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation (12 hours day shift once a week on a weekday and a weekend shift once every 6-8 weeks)
• Influence architectural decisions with a focus on security, scalability, and high-performance
• Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting
• Author technical documentation for workflows/processes/best practices.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of managing web-scale infrastructure in a production *nix environment
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently
• Advanced or expert-level Linux administration and performance tuning skills
• Track record of practical problem-solving under pressure
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or 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
• Self-driven with an analytical mind with a bias for action.

What We Offer

You will be working in our state-of-the-art Gigafactory where you’ll solve the world's most interesting problems with the best and brightest people who share a passion to change the world. Tesla’s compensation package includes a competitive salary and Tesla shares or bonuses. Typical benefits that we provide are 30 vacation days, an occupational pension, employee life and disability insurances, free EV charging, product discounts, and various transportation benefits.

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any factor, including veteran status and disability status, protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.

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