Cerebras
Staff Software Engineer, Observability
Sunnyvale, CA · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years building or operating observability/monitoring platforms at significant scale.
About the job
Leads the architecture and development of Cerebras’s observability platform, improving telemetry, reliability, and diagnosis across its hardware and software systems.
What you'll do
- Own the observability platform’s architecture and roadmap, and drive adoption across engineering teams.
- Design scalable telemetry pipelines and tools for alerting, SLOs, root cause analysis, and hardware health monitoring.
- Develop instrumentation libraries and standards, mentor engineers, and promote operational excellence.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years building or operating observability or monitoring platforms at significant scale.
- Expertise in open-source observability systems and experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
- Strong distributed systems and Kubernetes expertise, including reliable data pipelines at scale.
- Experience with observability cost management and capacity planning at scale; track record of setting technical direction across teams.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Go; strong experience in Python.
Tools
Prometheus, Thanos, Cortex, Mimir, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Loki, OpenTelemetry
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