Sr. Network Engineer, Datacenter Team

About the role

Sr. Network Engineer, Datacenter Team | Tesla (Engineering & Information Technology)

Location: AUSTIN, Texas | Req ID: 273797 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

Tesla is currently seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer to help design, build, and operate large-scale datacenter networks that support internal app, training, and inference workloads. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver highly available, scalable, and automated network infrastructure while ensuring exceptional reliability for Tesla’s critical applications.

What You'll Do

• Design and build new datacenters, including dedicated training and inference environments, ensuring robust, scalable, and high-performance network architectures
• Collaborate closely with team members to maintain, optimize, and expand existing datacenter networks
• Partner with Tesla’s key application teams to understand growth requirements and deliver network solutions that provide high availability, reliability, and performance
• Gather and analyze networking requirements; evaluate options and propose, design, and implement effective solutions
• Monitor, analyze, and report on key network service metrics to ensure performance, capacity, and reliability targets are met
• Develop and implement automation solutions to rapidly deploy, configure, and update network equipment at scale
• Conduct product evaluations and proof-of-concept (POC) testing to assess new technologies and vendors
• Create and maintain comprehensive network documentation, knowledge bases, and operational “Run-Books”
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide support during occasional weekends, after-hours periods, and holidays as needed
• Travel up to 10% as required to support datacenter projects and operations

What You'll Bring

• 6+ years of experience in mid/large-scale global enterprise networking infrastructure
• Extensive experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF, BGP), TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, end to end QOS, RDMA, InfiniBand, VLAN, VRRP, LACP, MC-LAG, EVPN with VXLAN, ACL and infrastructure cabling
• Strong Experience with Arista, Nvidia, Juniper, Cisco switches. Experience with SONiC is additional
• Good cabling & optics knowledge
• Experience with various tools such as Protocol Analyzer, SNMP, flow, IPAM, RADIUS, Splunk, network taps, and load/stress testing
• Experience with developing scripts to automate infrastructure deployment and collect metrics
• Basic experience with DevOps tools and technologies
• CCNP, JNCIP preferred

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
• Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)