Senior Observability Engineer - Scalable AI Inference

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Sunnyvale (CA)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Software Engineer focused on Observability to build scalable telemetry, dashboards, and tooling for production AI services. You will design and implement metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting pipelines, define SLIs/SLOs, and collaborate with backend and platform teams to keep systems reliable at a global scale.

You will also mentor on-call practices, contribute to internal developer platforms, and help balance telemetry signal with performance

Qualifications

Backend or systems software experience required.
Experience with observability tooling and platforms.
Experience building and operating telemetry pipelines at scale.

Responsibilities

Design and implement observability instrumentation across services and platforms.
Build and maintain telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces at scale.
Develop internal observability platforms, libraries, and tooling.
Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies.
Partner with engineers to make systems debuggable by design.
Reduce MTTR by enabling fast root-cause analysis during incidents.
Create clear dashboards and alerts reflecting real system health.
Balance telemetry signal vs cost, noise, and performance impact.
Improve the developer experience around observability and debugging.