Software Engineer - Tools & Infrastructure / DevOps - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 13 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves developing and maintaining tools and infrastructure for software development and DevOps at Cerebras. You will contribute to the infrastructure supporting the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs.
What you'll do
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of CICD pipelines.
- Manage artifact lifecycle systems including versioning, storage, distribution, and dependency management.
- Partner with development teams to design and improve code review workflows, branching strategies, and automated integration processes.
- Provision, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure to support CI workloads.
- Troubleshoot build failures, pipeline bottlenecks, and infrastructure issues.
- Contribute to internal build infrastructure, test infrastructure, tooling, and automation.
What you'll need
- 4-8 years of professional experience in a DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering role.
- Familiarity with CICD systems and hands-on experience in building or maintaining automated build and deployment pipelines.
- Understanding of artifact repository management and software packaging concepts.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS preferred) and programmatic resource provisioning.
- Proficiency with distributed version control systems, code review processes, and repository management.
- Foundational knowledge of operating system concepts (Linux/Unix), networking fundamentals, and scripting for automation.
- Experience with containerization and container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred).
- Strong troubleshooting skills and a methodical approach to debugging distributed systems.
- Being part of oncall and incident response task force of Dev Productivity org.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools and practices.
- Scripting proficiency in Python or Shell for build automation and tooling.
- Exposure to build systems and build graph optimization.
- Understanding of observability practices including monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills: cicd pipelines, aws, kubernetes, python, go, terraform
This role has been open 84 days — well above the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
968
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cerebras | All employers we track in this specialty (968 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 36 | 968 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 73 | 6118 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 84 d | 52 d (+32 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: cicd pipelines, aws, kubernetes, python, go, terraform
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 278 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 54 d
- AMD · 54 open roles · median 20 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 94 d
- Intel Corporation · 43 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras (this employer) · 36 open roles · median 84 d
How we counted: 968 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 19 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.