Staff Platform Engineer, Engineering Tools

Tesla is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and evolution of engineering tools used by its engineers. The role architects, automates, and operates platforms including GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Artifactory, Atlassian products, and Polarion on Linux infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Administer the Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Fisheye, JSM) on Linux, including tuning, integrations, and high availability
• Own GitHub Enterprise on premises: organization and repository management, branch protection policies, GitHub Actions pipelines, security hardening, and CI/CD integration
• Manage JFrog Artifactory repositories end-to-end artifact lifecycle, replication, access controls, storage backends, and performance at scale
• Maintain Linux-based infrastructure for all engineering tools: system hardening, kernel tuning, filesystem management, and troubleshooting
• Design and execute zero-downtime upgrade and patch strategies; participate in on-call for critical incidents
• Drive monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and performance analysis across all managed systems
• Build integrations between GitHub, Artifactory, Atlassian tools, and CI/CD pipelines using Ansible, Python, Shell, and Go
• Develop runbooks, operational documentation, and self-service tooling that reduces toil for both the team and end users
• Administer Polarion on Linux, including workflows, OSLC plugin integration, templates, and permissions

Skills

• Degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience
• Deep, hands-on experience administering Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence), GitHub, Artifactory at org scale installation, configuration, upgrades, debugging, and custom integrations
• Prior experience on managing on-prem enterprise platforms like Atlassian tools, GitHub, Mattermost
• Strong Linux systems background: production hardening, enterprise authentication, storage and network troubleshooting
• Proficient scripting and programming in Python, Shell, and Go; comfortable writing Ansible playbooks for configuration management and automation
• Experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery architectures for stateful tools
• Track record of resolving cross-layer incidents spanning OS, network, storage, virtualization, and application tiers

Benefits

• As a full-time Tesla employee, eligible at day 1 of hire: medical plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both with options for a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company-paid Health Savings Account (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 and 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: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft and 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)
• Cash and stock awards

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