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Distributed Systems Security Engineer

Cerebras· IT & Security
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)Full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Cerebras Systems seeks a Distributed Systems Security Engineer to build security controls and services for on-prem and cloud clusters, driving hardening across bare metal, virtualized, and Kubernetes-based environments.

Responsibilities

  • Define core security requirements for distributed systems environments, covering secure boot configurations to workload identity in Kubernetes pods
  • Partner with platform, infrastructure, networking, and hardware teams to identify gaps and deliver end-to-end security solutions
  • Develop threat models for each part of the cluster stack, outlining trust boundaries and interplay between first and third-party mechanisms
  • Work with engineering leads and architects to bake secure design in from the beginning
  • Balance engineering outcomes with security controls to enable secure, rapid delivery
  • Document security posture and strategy for technical and nontechnical audiences from both 1p and 3p perspectives

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years of experience with heterogeneous compute environments, Kubernetes hardening, and general networked system security
  • 10+ years with HPCs (high performance clusters)
  • Strong hands-on engineering abilities in on-prem and cloud environments
  • Ability to work in fragmented ecosystems, hardening both modern Kubernetes deployments and bare metal instances
  • Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed compute systems a plus
  • Strong written communication skills, with the ability to make security concepts approachable for non-specialists

Skills

Required:heterogeneous compute environmentskubernetes hardeningnetworked system securityHPCs (high-performance clusters)on-prem and cloud environments
Last updated Sep 27, 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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