Staff Engineer, Inference Platform & Kubernetes

Fdetimes; Sunnyvale (CA); In loco; USD 210.000 - 270.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead and contribute to the Inference Platform on the datacenter-scale cluster orchestration layer. You will work across Kubernetes operators, security policies, CI/CD, and platform evolution to deliver scalable, reliable AI inference.

You will shape technical direction, own major roadmap areas, and drive architectural decisions for high-availability systems with low latency and strong observability across global deployments.

Competenze

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with substantial individual contributor experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, ideally with Kubernetes.
• Strong track record of making sound architectural decisions for highly available, latency-sensitive systems at scale.
• Experience with security (certificates, TLS, mTLS).
• Experience optimizing latency, throughput, and efficiency in high-QPS systems. Experience with TTFT and tail-latency reduction is a strong plus.
• Strong proficiency in backend or systems languages such as Go or C++, with the expectation that you can contribute production code directly.
• Experience designing observability and reliability practices, including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, incident response, and SLO-driven operations.
• Ability to influence senior engineers and cross-functional partners through technical credibility, communication, and judgment, especially within your domain and adjacent systems.
• Preferred Skills & Qualifications
• Experience with ML inference infrastructure, model serving systems, or GPU-accelerated workloads.

Mansioni

• Design, develop, test, and maintain production software, with responsibilities spanning testing, continuous development, observability, security, networking, debugging, and productionization.
• Raise the effectiveness of senior engineers through design feedback, pairing, and clear technical standards.
• Platform Direction. Help shape the technical direction for the Inference Platform, Kubernetes CRDs, failure domains, service boundaries, and system evolution over time, and own the roadmap for major technical areas.
• Reliability & Performance. Architect active-active systems with rapid failover, graceful degradation, and clear SLOs. Improve latency, throughput, capacity, and resilience.
• Execution on Critical Paths. Write and review production code in key platform areas; make high-consequence architectural decisions.
• Production Leadership. Lead on hard production issues and bottlenecks; drive observability, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
• Technical Influence. Partner with ML, Product, Infrastructure, and Cloud teams to translate requirements into scalable designs.

Conoscenze

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Backend development

System architecture

Security (TLS, mTLS)

Low-latency optimization

Go

C++

Observability

Strumenti

Kubernetes

Go

C++

TLS/mTLS

Descrizione del lavoro

Cerebras Systems is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead and contribute to the Inference Platform on the datacenter-scale cluster orchestration layer. You will work across Kubernetes operators, security policies, CI/CD, and platform evolution to deliver scalable, reliable AI inference.

You will shape technical direction, own major roadmap areas, and drive architectural decisions for high-availability systems with low latency and strong observability across global deployments.