Site Reliability Engineer - Ops & Automation

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs. Cerebras' current customers include top model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras , to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference. Thanks to the groundbreaking wafer-scale architecture, Cerebras Inference offers the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services. This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation. About the Role We are building a high-performance SRE function to support one of the world’s fastest-growing AI inference services, powered by the Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE), helping deliver infrastructure for frontier-class models from leading model builders such as OpenAI. This role offers immediate ownership of real production systems at a growing scale, direct mentorship from seasoned engineers, and close collaboration with incoming Staff SREs who will focus on long-term automation. After ~1 month of shared hands-on operations with the Staff engineers, you’ll primarily operate the current setup, bring up new capacity in high-stakes environments and help bring new continuous delivery pipelines into production use. If you thrive in high-ownership SRE roles at scale and want to help shape a team from the ground up in cutting-edge AI Inference infrastructure, this is your chance. This role does not require 24/7 on-call rotations. Key Responsibilities Remain hands-on with operational execution (releases, capacity changes, cluster upgrades) over the next year as we build robust continuous delivery pipelines and self-service capabilities Contribute to the development of self-service CD pipelines for key workflows using our stack: Kubernetes, Bazel, Prometheus/Grafana/InfluxDB, Python, and Go. Build reusable automation and internal developer tools that minimize operational toil and cross-team friction Develop and extend telemetry, observability and alerting solutions to ensure operational reliability at scale Collaborate with Cluster Ops and development teams to identify high-impact automation opportunities and iterate quickly Contribute to reliability practices (SLOs, post-mortems, capacity planning) Required Experience & Skills 2-4+ years in SRE with a strong operations or automation focus Production Kubernetes experience Solid Python or Go for building tools and automation Proficiency with Prometheus, Grafana, and observability-driven workflows Ability to measure and communicate impact – reliability metrics, operational toil, velocity gains Nice-to-Ha ve Hands-on GitOps expertise, Argo CD / Flux or equivalent, is a plus Experience with building continuous delivery pipelines is a strong plus Experience with Bazel or similar build systems is a strong plus. Familiarity with capacity planning, on-prem or multi-datacenter environments Location SF Bay Area Toronto Why Join Cerebras People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras: Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU. Publish and open source the