Staff Software Engineer - Observability
Cerebras · Sunnyvale, CA
About this role
## Staff Software Engineer — Observability ### About the team The Cerebras Inference team’s mission is to deliver the world’s most performant, secure, and reliable enterprise-grade AI service. You’ll help build and operate large-scale distributed systems that power AI inference at unprecedented speed and efficiency. ### What you’ll do - Design and implement observability instrumentation across services and platforms - Build and maintain telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs, and traces at scale - Develop internal observability platforms, libraries, and tooling - Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies - Partner with engineers to make systems debuggable by design - Reduce MTTR by enabling fast root-cause analysis during incidents - Create clear, actionable dashboards and alerts that reflect real system health - Balance telemetry signal vs. cost, noise, and performance impact - Improve the developer experience around observability and debugging ### Qualifications **Core Engineering Skills** - Strong experience in backend or systems software engineering - Proficiency in one or more of: Go, C++, Rust, Java, Python - Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking fundamentals, and concurrency/performance tradeoffs **Observability & Reliability Experience** - Hands-on experience with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing - Production monitoring and alerting experience - Familiarity with tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog/Elastic/Jaeger/Tempo (or similar) - Experience designing high-signal alerts, scalable telemetry pipelines, and service-level indicators/objectives **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience in high-performance computing, AI/ML systems, or inference platforms - Hardware-aware observability (accelerators, GPUs, custom hardware) - Prior SRE or platform engineering background - Experience debugging large-scale production incidents - Building internal developer platforms or shared libraries ### Why join Cerebras Cerebras builds breakthrough AI hardware and infrastructure—serious software teams building their own hardware. You’ll work on a fast-growing platform with a focus on performance, reliability, and real-world impact. **Links** - OpenAI partnership: https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/ - Learn more / apply: https://www.cerebras.ai/join-us - Privacy/CCPA: https://www.cerebras.net/privacy/
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