Software Engineer, Cluster Deployment
Cerebras Systems2 months ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automation for cluster provisioning, configuration, validation, deployment workflows, and operational handoff.
- Convert manual deployment procedures into tested, repeatable pushbutton workflows.
- Participate in hands-on cluster deployments and troubleshoot Linux systems, bare-metal servers, networking, storage, Kubernetes, and connectivity.
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows using Terraform, Ansible, pull requests, and code review.
- Implement health checks, observability, dashboards, and validation logic to improve deployment reliability.
- Collaborate with networking, infrastructure, security, and operations teams on secure, reproducible data center deployments.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of mid- to large-scale data center deployment experience.
- Strong Python and Bash fundamentals, including the ability to write scripts and small programs.
- Basic Linux experience with command-line usage, processes, filesystems, and disk troubleshooting.
- Working knowledge of Git, including branching, commits, pull requests, and code review.
- CS, ECE, or related technical degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: networking fundamentals, VLANs, routing, BGP, switch configuration, or Arista EOS automation.
- Preferred: Kubernetes familiarity or experience.
- Preferred: Terraform, Ansible, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps experience.
- Preferred: bare-metal provisioning concepts including PXE, DHCP, iPXE, Redfish, IPMI, and BMC management.
- Preferred: Prometheus or Grafana observability experience, API design and client-server architecture knowledge, or automation side projects and open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Work on a breakthrough AI platform and one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
- Opportunities to publish and open source cutting-edge AI research.
- Job stability with startup vitality and a non-corporate work culture emphasizing individual beliefs.
- Continuous learning, growth, and support in an inclusive and diverse work environment.
About Cerebras Systems
Cerebras Systems designs and sells AI compute systems built around its wafer-scale WSE-3 processor, delivered as the CS-3 appliance and via the Cerebras Cloud. It targets enterprises, model labs, and government users needing fast training and inference, and offers on‑prem and cloud deployments. Privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company announced a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to deploy large-scale inference capacity.