Staff Software Engineer - Tools & Infrastructure / DevOps
Cerebras· Software Engineering
Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA), Hybrid (Toronto, CAN)Full-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Staff Software Engineer focusing on DevOps, CI/CD, and internal tooling to improve developer productivity and infrastructure at Cerebras Systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve CI/CD pipelines that support reliable and efficient build, test, and release workflows across the organization.
- Own and improve artifact lifecycle systems, including versioning, storage, distribution, dependency management, and reproducible builds at scale.
- Partner with development teams to design and improve code review workflows, branching strategies, and automated integration processes.
- Provision, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting CI workloads, balancing cost, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Troubleshoot complex build failures, pipeline bottlenecks, and infrastructure issues, driving root-cause analysis and implementing durable fixes.
- Design and drive improvements to internal build infrastructure, test infrastructure, developer tooling, and automation that increase developer velocity and engineering productivity.
- Identify systemic bottlenecks across developer workflows and lead architectural improvements to developer infrastructure.
- Contribute to the company’s efforts around AI tooling to improve engineering productivity and automate repetitive workflows.
- Provide technical leadership across projects, influence engineering standards, and mentor other engineers within the Developer Productivity organization.
- Participate in on-call and incident response for Developer Productivity systems and services.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, developer productivity, or a related area.
- Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and building or evolving automated build, test, and deployment infrastructure.
- Experience with artifact repositories, software packaging, dependency management, and reproducible build concepts.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms, with AWS preferred, and programmatic infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong experience with distributed version control systems, code review workflows, branching strategies, and repository management.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking fundamentals, and scripting or programming for automation.
- Experience with containerization and container orchestration, with Kubernetes preferred.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to debug complex distributed systems and infrastructure issues.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams and driving improvements to developer infrastructure at organizational scale.
- Ability to identify architectural bottlenecks, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive long-term improvements rather than only addressing operational issues.
- Experience operating production systems and participating in on-call, incident response, and postmortem processes.
Skills
Required:CI/CD systemsArtifact repositories and reproducible buildsCloud platforms / AWSLinux/Unix, networking, automation scriptingContainerization / KubernetesDistributed version control / code review workflowsOn-call / incident responseLeadership / cross-team initiatives
Nice to have:Programming / automation语言
Last updated Sep 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Cerebras
Cerebras is the go-to platform for fast and effortless AI training. Learn more at cerebras.ai.
Cerebras is the go-to platform for fast and effortless AI training.
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