Sr. Infrastructure Incident Manager, IT Infrastructure Engineering

Sr. Infrastructure Incident Manager, IT Infrastructure Engineering Tesla Motors, Inc. 120,000 - 396,000 USD paid holidays, flex time, 401(k) United States, California, Fremont Mar 11, 2026
What to Expect Tesla's Incident Management team supports global Infrastructure, Manufacturing, and Applications to identify and resolve problems with high-speed cross-team collaboration to reduce total time of business and customer impact. Infrastructure Incident Managers take part in a 24/7 Rotation to support all Tesla systems for Incident Response, problem follow up, preventative maintenance, and change management. Incident Managers ensure that escalations are accurately triaged and communicated, assist in troubleshooting, and track identified action items to full remediation. A successful candidate demonstrates outstanding communication skills, strong technical foundations, and excellent judgement. What You'll Do
Major Incident Communications and Support
Ensure Incident is correctly escalated to responder teams and stakeholders
Provide regular updates with a high-level summary of the incident in progress - have an excellent understanding of the incident triggers, containment steps, and next action items
Support the Incident troubleshooting flow and steer towards impact containment
Manage RCA submissions with Incident POC
Review Incident tickets for completeness, description of incident, understanding of root cause, incident timing, and tagging
Work with Program Managers and teams to get incident follow ups prioritized and completed
Work closely with NOC Team Analysts to streamline and improve process and documentation
Ensure all incidents are tagged with critical incident data
Build and maintain dashboards and reports for analysis of incident Trend data by Team, MTTA/MTTR by Team What You'll Bring
3+ years of additional equivalent experience or evidence of exceptional ability related to the position
Experience with troubleshooting distributed systems
Strong knowledge of multiple observability tools: Splunk, Prometheus/Alert Manager, Synthetic Monitoring, Grafana
Basic understanding of Linux fundamentals (Ubuntu/RHEL OS)
Basic understanding of Network and Traffic fundamentals
Basic understanding of modern software architecture workflow and common design patterns
Experience in collaborating with network and data center teams for large scale infrastructure support
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
Sound judgement, outstanding communication, & ability to work with internal customers in a fast-paced, high visibility role 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
$120,000 - $396,000/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.