Senior AI Inference Platform Engineer

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems seeks a Software Engineer to build and operate the platform layer behind Cerebras engineering infrastructure in Sunnyvale, CA. You will impact CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment platforms, and automation that supports developers across the team.

This role emphasizes engineering-focused infrastructure, with a focus on reliability and scalable solutions. Strong systems fundamentals and problem-solving are essential, alongside experience with Python and Linux.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or software engineering.
• Hands‑on experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated software‑delivery workflows.
• Experience deploying and operating services using Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience with a major cloud platform, preferably AWS, and programmatic infrastructure provisioning.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD systems supporting build, test, integration, qualification, and release workflows.
• Build and operate Kubernetes-based platforms and services used by engineering teams across Cerebras.
• Develop deployment systems, internal tools, and self-service workflows that make infrastructure changes repeatable, reviewable, and safe.
• Improve infrastructure reliability, capacity, performance, cost efficiency, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Debug issues spanning CI pipelines, Kubernetes workloads, networking, storage, authentication, operating systems, and distributed applications.
• Perform root‑cause analysis and implement lasting fixes rather than relying on repeated manual intervention.
• Partner with software, IT, security, networking, release, and developer‑productivity teams to deliver scalable infrastructure solutions.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Linux fundamentals

Networking concepts

Infrastructure automation

Debugging

Problem solving

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Argo CD

Helm

AWS

Docker

Git

Job description

Cerebras Systems seeks a Software Engineer to build and operate the platform layer behind Cerebras engineering infrastructure in Sunnyvale, CA. You will impact CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment platforms, and automation that supports developers across the team.

This role emphasizes engineering-focused infrastructure, with a focus on reliability and scalable solutions. Strong systems fundamentals and problem-solving are essential, alongside experience with Python and Linux.