Job Description

What to Expect

he Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched 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 are our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.





The Role


The Core Automation Services (CAS) team at Tesla is building applications to enable manufacturing, with an eye towards reliability, availability, scalability, speed and security. We're a diverse team composed of Controls Automation Engineers, Software Engineers, and various other disciplines that help facilitate automated manufacturing processes.


As an SRE on the CAS team you'll be working with the infrastructure, systems and applications that act as the middleware layer between Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and the outside world, such as Databases, MES systems and other services.

What You'll Do

Support interim HMI/SCADA vendor application (Ignition from Inductive Automation) Building tooling around it, evaluating its usage, and helping to ensure its reliability, availability and security Design software and systems that enable automated manufacturing at Tesla Assist Software, Controls, Manufacturing and other types of Engineers with onboarding and integrating services into the Tesla stack (Kubernetes/VMWare/Bare-metal) Ensuring best practices and observability of the service, such as metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting Automate configuration and deployment of services Consult on and design infrastructure, systems and application architecture

What You'll Bring

Experience with Virtualization (vSphere) and/or Containerization (Kubernetes) Expert skills in Linux and its administration (Ubuntu 18.04/20.04) Understanding of networking (Routing/Switching, VLANs, Firewalls, and Load Balancers) Experience in a high-level language such as Go, Python and/or Java Observability (Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, Jaeger, and Splunk) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible) CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Enterprise) Artifact management (Artifactory) Bare-metal imaging experience (Ubuntu netboot PXE) Strong bias for action vs endless planning, willing to get hands dirty and make mistakes sometimes Good hands-on years of experience of DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer Habitual documenter and spreader of knowledge Willing to mentor other team members and engineers with less SWE/IT type knowledge Comfortable on an on-call rotation Comfortable doing live troubleshooting of issues on NOC bridges/outage calls


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 / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor 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.