The Role
Tesla is re-thinking how batteries are made from the ground up. We're designing new factories, new equipment, new processes and new software to rapidly scale battery manufacturing, globally. The primary bottleneck to Tesla's future expansion (and the transition to sustainable transport and energy storage) is our ability to produce and procure batteries - that's why we're innovating in-house, with our collection of world-class engineers, to redefine the industry. Software, data and automation all play a huge part in this strategy.



We've built software from scratch with a nimble and high performing team to meet the specific needs of Tesla's rapid battery manufacturing scale up. This software tracks every component of the cell manufacturing process and acts as the brain of the entire cell factory. It's key to ensuring batteries are made safely and for understanding how to improve processes. This platform is the conduit for data coming from the line, and it is part of the goal to have more data about manufacturing, end to end, than any other company.



The Cell Software team is responsible for building software solutions that allow the company to redefine manufacturing and production. We focus on implementing effective software advances, distributed fault-tolerant computing, and modern user- experience to manufacturing systems throughout Tesla. Our stack is built on top of Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, MQTT, PostgreSQL, Redis, and other related platforms. We are not stuck in legacy systems.



Responsibilities

• Work with automation software, databases, virtual machines, and other applications that enable manufacturing in our various factories
• Monitor availability taking holistic view of system health
• Measure and optimize system performance
• Provide operational support and engineering for several large-scale distributed software applications
• Design and implement automation for managing the deployment and upgrades of large-scale manufacturing software applications
• Define Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans for the various software deployments
• Improve observability of industrial automation software through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Design infrastructure, systems and application architecture

Requirements

• Proficient in Linux fundamentals
• Experience working directly with Software Engineering teams as a developer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer
• Experience with modern infrastructure services, distributed systems, microservices, and software design at a high-level
• Experience working with containers and container management systems
• Understand cyber security principles and best practices
• Experience in managing configuration changes across a large set of distributed production systems
• Experience in high level language such as Python, Go and/or Java
• Comfortable on an on-call rotation and doing live troubleshooting of issues on NOC bridges/outage calls

Compensation and Benefits
Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical 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 Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• LGBTQ+ care concierge services
• 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
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary 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


Expected Compensation

$104,000 - $348,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.