Staff Platform Engineer, Engineering Tools

Description

The Engineering Tooling team is looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and evolution of the tools that thousands of engineers depend on every day. You'll be the subject matter expert for our core engineering toolchain GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Artifactory, and the Atlassian products like JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket running on Linux infrastructure at scale. This is a high-ownership role: you'll architect, automate, and operate these systems, not just maintain them.

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

Requirements

• 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

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:

• 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

Expected Compensation

$200,000 - $300,000/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.