Senior Observability Engineer - Scale Telemetry

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Software Engineer focused on Observability to build the systems that give deep visibility into large-scale production services. Youll design and implement metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting infrastructure, shaping internal platforms, and collaborating with engineers across the stack to improve reliability.

Youll work to reduce MTTR, define SLIs/SLOs, and create clear dashboards that reflect real system health, balancing signal against cost and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend or systems software with observability focus.
• Experience building telemetry pipelines and SLI/SLO definitions.
• Proficient with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience with high-performance distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design observability instrumentation across services and platforms.
• Build telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, traces at scale.
• Develop internal observability platforms, libraries, tooling.
• Define SLI/SLOs and alerting strategies.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve debuggability.
• Reduce MTTR with fast root-cause analysis.
• Create dashboards and alerts reflecting system health.
• Balance telemetry signal vs cost and performance.

Skills

Backend/Systems

Go

C++

Rust

Python

Distributed systems

Networking

Concurrency

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Elastic

Jaeger

Tempo

Job description

Cerebras Systems in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Software Engineer focused on Observability to build the systems that give deep visibility into large-scale production services. Youll design and implement metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting infrastructure, shaping internal platforms, and collaborating with engineers across the stack to improve reliability.

Youll work to reduce MTTR, define SLIs/SLOs, and create clear dashboards that reflect real system health, balancing signal against cost and