Secure Distributed Systems Engineer | On-Prem & Cloud

Cerebras Systems; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems seeks a Distributed Systems Security Engineer to build security controls for on-prem and cloud clusters. You will drive hardening across bare metal, VMs, and Kubernetes, collaborating with platform, infrastructure, and hardware teams to raise security maturity.

The role requires 8–10 years in heterogeneous compute environments and 10+ years in HPCs, with hands-on engineering across on-prem and cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience with heterogeneous compute environments, kubernetes hardening, and general networked system security
• 10+ years with HPCs (high performance clusters)
• Strong hands-on engineering abilities in on-prem and cloud environments
• Ability to work in fragmented ecosystems, hardening both modern k8s deployments as well as bare metal instances

Responsibilities

• Define core security requirements for distributed systems environments, covering secure boot configurations to workload identity in k8s pods
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, networking, and hardware teams to identify gaps and deliver end-to-end solutions improving security maturity
• Develop threat models for each part of the cluster stack, outlining trust boundaries and interplay between first and third-party mechanisms
• Work with engineering leads and architects to bake secure design in from the beginning
• Balance engineering outcomes with security controls, enabling secure rapid delivery
• Document security posture and strategy for technical and nontechnical audiences from both 1p and 3p perspectives

Skills

Kubernetes hardening

HPCs

Cloud security

Network security

Security architecture

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Cerebras Systems seeks a Distributed Systems Security Engineer to build security controls for on-prem and cloud clusters. You will drive hardening across bare metal, VMs, and Kubernetes, collaborating with platform, infrastructure, and hardware teams to raise security maturity.

The role requires 8–10 years in heterogeneous compute environments and 10+ years in HPCs, with hands-on engineering across on-prem and cloud deployments.