Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer – AI-Powered SRE

Cerebras; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems seeks a Staff Cloud Reliability Engineer to own the availability and efficiency of its multi-cloud SaaS platform (AWS, GCP). You will lead SRE practices with AI-powered automation, design scalable Kubernetes controller frameworks, and manage geodistributed data services such as PostgreSQL/RDS, MySQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.

Expect on-call rotation and a strong bias toward automation. The role emphasizes capacity planning, incident response, and blameless post-mortems, with

Qualifications

• B.Tech. degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 6+ years of Enterprise SaaS Ops experience.
• Proficiency in Go and Python; experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Expertise in Cloud Security and/or Cloud networking.
• Experience with AI Ops tools and Agentic LLM.
• Experience with cloud services, Kubernetes, cloud databases (PostgreSQL/RDS/MySQL/DynamoDB), Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and caching tech.
• Experience with observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and alerting in a Cloud SaaS environment.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across network, systems, database, and application domains.
• Advanced cloud provider certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP) are a bonus; Full stack dev experience is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Operate a high-scale, multi-cloud SaaS platform (AWS, GCP) ensuring reliability, performance, and uptime for production workloads.
• Embed AI-powered workflows into SRE practices: AI Ops platforms, autonomous agents for anomaly detection, triage, and runbook execution.
• Lead capacity planning and scaling, modeling growth and implementing autoscaling to support SaaS growth without regressions.
• Architect and operate Kubernetes controller frameworks; enforce cluster lifecycle, scheduling, autoscaling, and failover standards.
• Own operations of cloud-native databases and data infrastructure (PostgreSQL/RDS, DynamoDB, MySQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, ElastiCache) including performance tuning and backups.
• Lead incident response and blameless post-mortems; drive root cause analysis for permanent fixes and prevention.
• Promote automation-first culture with self-healing systems and GitOps (Terraform, Helm).
• Participate in on-call rotations and act as senior escalation point during high-severity incidents.
• Achieve measurable SaaS operational excellence via SLIs/SLOs/SLAs.

Skills

Go

Python

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Cloud security

AI Ops

LLM

Observability

Distributed systems

Education

B.Tech in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

RDS

MySQL

DynamoDB

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Redis

Kafka

Job description

Cerebras Systems seeks a Staff Cloud Reliability Engineer to own the availability and efficiency of its multi-cloud SaaS platform (AWS, GCP). You will lead SRE practices with AI-powered automation, design scalable Kubernetes controller frameworks, and manage geodistributed data services such as PostgreSQL/RDS, MySQL and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.

Expect on-call rotation and a strong bias toward automation. The role emphasizes capacity planning, incident response, and blameless post-mortems, with