Sr. Software Engineer, Core Platform Engineering

What to Expect Tesla's Platform Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team.
As a member of the team, you will be building the next generation of our Kubernetes cluster provisioning and management platform.
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.
What You’ll Do Develop and maintain Kubernetes controllers 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 24x7 on-call rotation (12 hour day shift once a week on a weekday and a weekend shift once every 6-8 weeks) Influence architectural designs with focus on security, scalability, and high-performance Setup and maintain monitoring, metrics, and reporting systems for fine-grained observability and actionable alerting Author technical documentation for workflows/processes/best practices What You’ll Bring Demonstrated ability to write efficient and maintainable code in GoLang Experience building and deploying Kuberntes clusters 5+ years experience of managing web-scale infrastucture in a production *nix environment Advanced level Linux administration and performance tuning skills BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience Advanced experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet Experience with AWS or other cloud infrastructure providers