Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, transforming the user experience of AI applications. They are seeking a hands-on Reliability Tech Lead to drive reliability strategy and execution across their inference stack, ensuring world-class reliability standards are met.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive reliability strategy: establish SLOs and ensure alignment across engineering
- Design and implement reliability mechanisms: build and evolve systems for fault detection, graceful degradation, failover, throttling, and recovery across multiple regions and data centers
- Lead large-scale incident management: own postmortems, root-cause analysis, and prevention loops for reliability-related incidents
- Architect for reliability and observability: influence system design for redundancy, durability, and debuggability
- Develop reliability tooling: create internal tools and frameworks for chaos testing, load simulation, and distributed fault injection
- Collaborate broadly: work across software, infrastructure, and hardware teams to ensure reliability is embedded into every layer of our inference service
- Monitor and communicate reliability metrics: build dashboards and alerts that measure service health and provide actionable insights
- Mentor and influence: guide engineers and set best practices for designing, testing, and operating reliable large-scale systems
Skills
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related field
- 7+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, or reliability engineering for large-scale distributed systems
- Strong programming skills in at least one popular backend programming language such as Python, C++, Go, or Rust
- Deep and hard-earned experience of reliability principles: SLO/SLI/SLA design, incident response, and postmortem culture
- Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills
- Prior experience building large-scale AI infrastructure systems
Benefits
- 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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