Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Robotaxi Service

About the role

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Robotaxi Service | Tesla (Engineering & Information Technology)

Location: AUSTIN, Texas | Req ID: 281585 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

Tesla's Robotaxi service is one of the most operationally complex, safety-critical products we've ever built. The Robotaxi fleet runs 24/7 across the US, backed by tightly coupled systems spanning vehicle connectivity, cloud backends, network infrastructure, autonomy software, and service operations.

We're looking for a SRE who operates like a task force engineer — self-organizing around the hardest problems, finding the critical path to reliability and scale, and driving solutions across team boundaries without waiting to be assigned. When something breaks, you dig in, identify which layer is at fault, and engineer your way to a fix. You'll be building tooling and driving systemic improvements across a production system with no human driver as a fallback.

This role is organized within the IT Infrastructure organization, embedded in the Robotaxi operational ecosystem across the US.

What You'll Do

• End-to-End Connectivity: Identify where the critical path to reliability and scale is blocked — observability gaps, delicate integrations, processes which struggle under load — and drive the fix. Translate operational symptoms from the Operations team into well-scoped engineering problems and bring the right teams to a shared solution
• Build relationships across Autopilot, fleet networking, platform engineering, and service engineering — becoming the person who understands how the pieces fit and who owns what
• Debugging & operational support: Take on the hardest cross-system issues — the ones that don't fit neatly into one team's scope — working through them directly with Autopilot, fleet networking, platform, and IT infrastructure teams
• Use AI-assisted tools for log analysis, anomaly detection, and root cause correlation to reduce time-to-resolution on complex, multi-system issues
• Escalate well-scoped problems with clear reproduction steps, supporting data, and impact assessment
• Observability, Tooling & Reliability: Build monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for Robotaxi-critical services — fleet health, tele-operation endpoints, service routing pipelines — integrated with on-call systems
• Write automation that reduces toil: fleet health checks, service routing validation, and operational state monitoring
• Write runbooks that give Ops and on-call engineers clear, actionable steps when things go wrong
• Define priority levels for Robotaxi — full fleet connectivity, tele-operations, data uploads and OTAs. Build the severity classification framework before the incidents arrive
• Work closely with Tesla's Incident Management team as the Robotaxi subject matter expert — ensuring alerts route correctly, on-call coverage is scoped appropriately, and postmortem findings feed back into engineering

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of SRE, infrastructure engineering, or production operations in a distributed systems environment
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VLAN/MTU)
• Hands-on Kubernetes in production — pod scheduling, ingress controllers, cluster diagnostics
• Observability tooling experience — log aggregation, metrics, or APM. You build alerts that fire when they should
• Proficiency in Python or Go for scripting, automation, and tooling
• Comfort with AI-assisted tools for debugging, log analysis, and documentation
• Cellular, Starlink, or Wi-Fi behavior at scale in mobile or field-deployed environments
• Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps tooling (Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm)
• Background in IoT, connected vehicle, or fleet management — telemetry pipelines, OTA, vehicle-to-cloud

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)