Staff Engineer, Scalable Inference Platform

Cerebras Systems; Binangonan; On-site; PHP 11,077,000 - 14,769,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems is hiring a Staff Engineer to lead and contribute to the Inference Platform team, focusing on orchestration across datacenter clusters and cloud components. You will address issues across Kubernetes operators, security policies, and CI/CD to drive scalable, secure, and high-performance systems.

You will guide platform direction, influence architectural choices, and work with ML, product, and infrastructure groups to translate requirements into robust designs for a globally

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, ideally with Kubernetes.
• Strong track record of architectural decisions for highly available, latency-sensitive systems at scale.
• Experience with security (certificates, TLS, mTLS).
• Experience optimizing latency, throughput and efficiency in high-QPS systems; TTFT and tail-latency know‑how a strong plus.
• Strong proficiency in backend or systems languages such as Go or C++, with production code ability.
• Experience designing observability and reliability practices (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, incident response, SLOs).
• Ability to influence senior engineers and cross-functional partners with credibility and judgment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain production software across testing, CI/CD, and productionization.
• Improve effectiveness of senior engineers through design feedback, pairing, and standards.
• Shape technical direction for the Inference Platform, CRDs, failure domains, and roadmaps.
• Architect active-active systems with rapid failover, latency targets, and efficient capacity planning.
• Lead on hardest production issues and cross-system bottlenecks with strong operational rigor.
• Collaborate with ML, Product, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to align on shared technical decisions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Go/C++

Performance optimization

Security

Observability

Leadership

System architecture

Job description

Cerebras Systems is hiring a Staff Engineer to lead and contribute to the Inference Platform team, focusing on orchestration across datacenter clusters and cloud components. You will address issues across Kubernetes operators, security policies, and CI/CD to drive scalable, secure, and high-performance systems.

You will guide platform direction, influence architectural choices, and work with ML, product, and infrastructure groups to translate requirements into robust designs for a globally