Senior AI Fleet Platform Engineer

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems seeks a senior software engineer to build and operate software that manages large AI clusters across data centers. You will own backend services, operational tools, and user-facing applications, partnering with diverse teams to ensure compute capacity is available and scalable.

You will lead projects from design to production, focusing on reliability, observability, and security while delivering practical solutions that meet real-world operating needs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of industry experience building and operating production software for distributed systems or large-scale infrastructure.
• Strong Go or Python skills and experience designing services and APIs.
• Expertise in control planes, fleet management systems, or operational platforms.
• Experience with Linux, containers, Kubernetes, and handling failures across distributed systems.
• Experience designing systems that handle asynchronous work, retries, and partial failures.
• Experience with event streaming, workflow automation, or time-series telemetry.
• Strong judgment in reliability, security, and observability.
• Ability to lead ambiguous projects and work effectively across engineering and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate software for managing large fleets of AI clusters.
• Give operators clear, actionable views of cluster health, capacity, performance, and ongoing issues.
• Develop services and integrations that bring together data and workflows from multiple infrastructure systems.
• Automate repetitive work and improve the tools teams use to investigate incidents and restore service.
• Design systems that remain reliable as the fleet grows and continue to function through component and site failures.
• Work closely with users of the platform to understand their needs and make practical product and engineering decisions.
• Lead projects from initial design to production, measure their impact, and use operational feedback to guide improvements.

Skills

Years of experience

Go

Python

Control planes

Fleet management

APIs design

Linux

Containers

Kubernetes

Reliability

Observability

Leadership

Tools

Linux

Containers

Kubernetes

APIs

Job description

Cerebras Systems seeks a senior software engineer to build and operate software that manages large AI clusters across data centers. You will own backend services, operational tools, and user-facing applications, partnering with diverse teams to ensure compute capacity is available and scalable.

You will lead projects from design to production, focusing on reliability, observability, and security while delivering practical solutions that meet real-world operating needs.