Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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Key Responsibilities

Own the long-term architecture and roadmap for the observability platform across all pillars (metrics, logs, traces, and events). Drive adoption across the engineering organization through RFCs,

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Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services.

This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.

Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.

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Requirements

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8+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years building or operating observability/monitoring platforms at significant scale (millions of active time series, petabytes of log data).
Deep expertise in the open-source observability ecosystem. You have operated, tuned, and extended systems like Prometheus, Thanos/Cortex/Mimir, Elasticsearch/ClickHouse, or Loki and understand their internals, failure modes, and cost characteristics.
Experience with OpenTelemetry for instrumentation across a polyglot services environment.
Proficiency in Go preferred, with strong experience in Python. You write performant, concurrent systems code, not just glue scripts.
Strong distributed systems and Kubernetes expertise: sharding, replication, consistency models, monitoring K8s itself and the workloads running on it, and the tradeoffs involved in building reliable data pipelines at scale.
Experience with observability cost management and capacity planning at scale.
Track record of setting technical direction and driving adoption across multiple teams. You operate effectively with ambiguity and can translate business needs into technical strategy.

What We Offer

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People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras, we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:

✓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.

Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.

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