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Sr. Network Engineer, Datacenter Team

Tesla Motors, Inc.
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 7/21/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/20/2026
What to Expect

Tesla is currentlyseeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer to help design, build, and operate large-scale datacenter networks that support internal app, training, and inference workloads. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver highly available, scalable, and automated network infrastructure while ensuring exceptional reliability for Tesla's critical applications.


What You'll Do
  • Design and build new datacenters, including dedicated training and inference environments, ensuring robust, scalable, and high-performance network architectures
  • Collaborate closely with team members to maintain, optimize, and expand existing datacenter networks
  • Partner with Tesla's key application teams to understand growth requirements and deliver network solutions that provide high availability, reliability, and performance
  • Gather and analyze networking requirements; evaluate options and propose, design, and implement effective solutions
  • Monitor, analyze, and report on key network service metrics to ensure performance, capacity, and reliability targets are met
  • Develop and implement automation solutions to rapidly deploy, configure, and update network equipment at scale
  • Conduct product evaluations and proof-of-concept (POC) testing to assess new technologies and vendors
  • Create and maintain comprehensive network documentation, knowledge bases, and operational "Run-Books"
  • Participate in on-call rotation and provide support during occasional weekends, after-hours periods, and holidays as needed
  • Travel up to 10% as required to support datacenter projects and operations

What You'll Bring
  • 6 years of experience in mid/large-scale global enterprise networking infrastructure
  • Extensive experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF, BGP), TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, end to end QOS, RDMA, InfiniBand, VLAN, VRRP, LACP, MC-LAG, EVPN with VXLAN, ACL and infrastructure cabling
  • Strong Experience with Arista, Nvidia, Juniper, Cisco switches. Experience with SONiC is additional
  • Good cabling & optics knowledge
  • Experience with various tools such as Protocol Analyzer, SNMP, flow, IPAM, RADIUS, Splunk, network taps, and load/stress testing
  • Experience with developing scripts to automate infrastructure deployment and collect metrics
  • Basic experience with DevOps tools and technologies
  • CCNP, JNCIP preferred

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

    Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

     

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