Senior Staff Engineer, Inference Platform & Kubernetes

Cerebras; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cerebras Systems is hiring a Staff Engineer for our Inference Platform team in Sunnyvale (CA) or Toronto. You’ll help lead projects on orchestration, Kubernetes operators, and CI/CD, building a globally distributed inference platform for ultra-fast AI workloads.

You will influence platform direction, drive reliability and performance, and contribute production code while collaborating with ML, Product, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, ideally with Kubernetes.
• Proven track record of making architectural decisions for highly available, latency-sensitive systems.
• Experience with security (TLS, mTLS) and secure service design.
• Experience optimizing latency and throughput in high-QPS environments; TTFT a plus.
• Strong backend or systems programming in Go or C++, able to contribute production code.
• Experience designing observability, reliability practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, and SLO-driven operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain production software across testing, CI/CD, observability, security, networking, debugging and productionization.
• Raise the effectiveness of senior engineers through design feedback, pairing, and clear technical standards.
• Platform Direction: shape the technical direction for the Inference Platform, CRDs, failure domains, service boundaries, and roadmaps.
• Reliability & Performance: architect active-active systems with rapid failover, latency and throughput improvements, and resilience under varying demand.
• Execution on Critical Paths: write and review production code in key areas and set engineering standards through reviews.
• Production Leadership: lead on production issues, incident response, capacity planning, and post-incident improvements.
• Technical Influence: collaborate with ML, Product, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to align on scalable designs.

Skills

Distributed systems architecture

Kubernetes

Go or C++

Observability & SRE practices

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS or related field

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Cerebras Systems is hiring a Staff Engineer for our Inference Platform team in Sunnyvale (CA) or Toronto. You’ll help lead projects on orchestration, Kubernetes operators, and CI/CD, building a globally distributed inference platform for ultra-fast AI workloads.

You will influence platform direction, drive reliability and performance, and contribute production code while collaborating with ML, Product, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams.