Cerebras
Senior Backend Engineer, Inference Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Toronto, CAN - Experience
- Typically 8+ years of industry experience building and operating production software.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build, scale, and operate backend services, APIs, and data pipelines powering Cerebras Inference Cloud and its Developer Console.
What you'll do
- Own core capabilities such as billing, usage metering, quotas, account management, request logs, and metrics.
- Design and deliver APIs, services, data models, and data-processing workflows for reliable, scalable cloud systems.
- Operate production systems, improve observability and recovery, and provide technical leadership across teams.
What they ask for
- Experience designing APIs, backend services, data models, and distributed systems.
- Track record designing, delivering, and operating complex production systems.
- Database and data-processing experience, including schema design, query performance, and transactional and asynchronous workflows.
- Strong technical judgment, independent execution, and ability to communicate and collaborate across teams.
Nice to have
- Relevant experience with cloud platforms, developer tools, billing and metering, identity and access management, observability, or high-volume data processing.
- GraphQL, Postgres, and Redis.
Tools
GraphQL, Postgres, Redis
AI focus
Build backend platform capabilities that support access to, management of, and operation of AI inference workloads.
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