Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Systems

Principal SRE - AI Inference

Headquarters/Sunnyvale Office · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
Site Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningIncident ResponseComplianceForecastingLeadership

About the role

  • Architect self-service platforms and internal tooling that let product teams, external customers, and cluster operators safely trigger and observe critical workflows with minimal handoffs.
  • 15+ years in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering, with a record of setting technical direction and delivering reliability improvements at large scale in FAANG, hyperscaler, frontier AI, or similarly demanding production environments.
  • Experience defining and driving cross-team architecture for production control planes, capacity orchestration, fleet management, or self-service infrastructure platforms with clear operational ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement a robust strategy for delivering and running software reliably and at scale across multiple datacenters and cloud-based solutions.
  • Mentor senior SREs, support critical incident escalations, and use production pain points to prioritize the highest-leverage automation work.
  • Measure and drive impact through clear metrics, including toil reduction, deployment velocity, SLO compliance, MTTR, and adoption of self-service workflows.

Requirements

  • Required Experience & Skills
  • Deep experience with large-scale compute fleets, internal control planes, schedulers, orchestration systems, capacity management, and reliability automation.
  • Hands-on experience with production observability, incident response, and SLO-based reliability management across metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and operational review loops.
  • Experience with Bazel or other large-scale build systems in production.

Skills

  • Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.

Company info

  • Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
  • Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
  • Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
  • Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
  • Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.

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