Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Factory Software - Fremont [272321]

$200,000 - $300,000 yearly

Job Description

The Factory Software team at Tesla is building critical applications to enable manufacturing and warehouse management with a strong emphasis on reliability, availability, scalability, speed, and security. We are a diverse, cross-functional team of Controls Engineers, Software Engineers, SREs, and other disciplines working on automated manufacturing and warehouse processes.

This is a technical leadership role. As the Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will be the primary technical owner and leader for the Factory Software team’s reliability, observability, and infrastructure strategy. You will combine deep hands-on engineering with leadership to set technical direction, raise the bar on engineering practices, and ensure the full stack — from Kubernetes clusters and databases to factory-facing applications — is highly reliable, observable, and performant.

The Role

  • Provide technical leadership and set the vision for observability, reliability, and platform standardization across the Factory Software team
  • Design and implement end-to-end observability and telemetry solutions (OTEL, Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo, etc.) while mentoring the team on best practices
  • Own the reliability of the full stack: Kubernetes infrastructure, virtual machines, databases, and the middleware applications connecting PLCs, MES systems, and other factory services
  • Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and golden signals across services
  • Lead major initiatives to eliminate speed bottlenecks, database contention, and infrastructure issues through proactive monitoring and automation
  • Write production-grade code and build tools to reduce toil and improve deployment, monitoring, and operational workflows
  • Participate hands-on in on-call rotations, live troubleshooting during outages (NOC bridges), and blameless post-mortems
Anthony Antonucci

Qualifications

Relevant experience in Engineering & Information Technology; strong problem-solving skills; commitment to Tesla mission.

Immediate Fill

No