Staff Software Engineer - Tools & Infrastructure / DevOps - Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Originally posted 1 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves designing, building, and evolving CI/CD pipelines and owning artifact lifecycle systems for build, test, and release workflows. You will focus on cloud infrastructure supporting CI workloads and internal build infrastructure improvements.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and evolve CI/CD pipelines that support reliable and efficient build, test, and release workflows.
- Own and improve artifact lifecycle systems, including versioning, storage, distribution, dependency management, and reproducible builds at scale.
- Partner with development teams to design and improve code review workflows, branching strategies, and automated integration processes.
- Provision, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure supporting CI workloads, balancing cost, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Design and drive improvements to internal build infrastructure, test infrastructure, developer tooling, and automation.
- Participate in on-call and incident response for Developer Productivity systems and services.
What you'll need
- 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or developer productivity.
- Deep hands-on experience with CI/CD systems and building or evolving automated build, test, and deployment infrastructure.
- Experience with artifact repositories, software packaging, dependency management, and reproducible build concepts.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms, with AWS preferred, and programmatic infrastructure provisioning.
- Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking fundamentals, and scripting or programming for automation.
- Experience with containerization and container orchestration, with Kubernetes preferred.
Nice to have
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and practices.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Shell, or another language used for infrastructure automation and developer tooling.
- Experience with build systems, build graph optimization, or large-scale build infrastructure.
- Experience with observability practices including monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance analysis.
- Experience building internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, or developer-facing infrastructure.
- Experience applying AI/LLM tooling to engineering workflows or developer productivity.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Skills: CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, AWS, Kubernetes, developer tooling
This role has been open 43 days — below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
956
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$235k
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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 (956 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 39 | 956 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 76 | 6164 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 80 d | 51 d (+29 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, AWS, Kubernetes, developer tooling
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 287 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 56 d
- AMD · 53 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 89 d
- Cerebras (this employer) · 39 open roles · median 79 d
- Intel Corporation · 36 open roles · median 13 d
How we counted: 956 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 14 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.