Senior Detection & Response Platform Engineer

Cerebras Systems; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a senior Detection and Response Platform Engineer to own and evolve the systems powering our security telemetry and response workflows. You will design pipelines, maintain the execution environment and tooling for detections and response automation, and uphold engineering standards to ensure reliability and fast diagnosis.

Join a fast-growing team building durable internal systems and exploring AI-assisted approaches to reduce toil while keeping

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform/SRE, software engineering, or security engineering.
• Strong proficiency in Python for production systems.
• Hands-on experience operating production systems in a major cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including IAM, networking, and logging.
• Experience building and operating event/log pipelines and data workflows (streaming and/or batch), with strong fundamentals in reliability and data quality.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation (e.g., Terraform/Pulumi and CI/CD).
• Practical knowledge of detection and response concepts across cloud, identity, and endpoint environments, with the ability to partner effectively with D&R engineers.
• Strong fundamentals in operating systems, networking, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to create clear documentation and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the core infrastructure that powers detection and response workflows at scale.
• Design and maintain security telemetry pipelines, including collection, normalization, enrichment, and retention of logs and events.
• Own and evolve the execution environment and supporting tooling for detections and response automation, including dependency and configuration management, release processes, and runtime health monitoring.
• Automate investigation and response workflows by extending integrations across the tools we rely on.
• Set and uphold engineering standards for our tooling: clear interfaces, automated tests, code review, and documentation that makes the system easy to extend.
• Own operational health for the platform, including metrics, alerting, and on-call responsibilities focused on system reliability and availability.
• Explore and apply emerging approaches, potentially leveraging AI, to reduce toil and strengthen our security posture.
• Maintain operational playbooks and procedures that keep the platform healthy and make failures fast to diagnose and recover from.

Skills

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Security engineering

Reliability engineering

Excellent communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a senior Detection and Response Platform Engineer to own and evolve the systems powering our security telemetry and response workflows. You will design pipelines, maintain the execution environment and tooling for detections and response automation, and uphold engineering standards to ensure reliability and fast diagnosis.

Join a fast-growing team building durable internal systems and exploring AI-assisted approaches to reduce toil while keeping