Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Posted 1 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer”
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- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Hybrid
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; 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.
Cerebras works with the leading 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.
Responsibilities:
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Drive the design and architecture of secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and identity platforms in AWS and our own data centers.
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Design and implement IAM, IGA, authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, identity lifecycle management, and provisioning/deprovisioning solutions using modern identity platforms and standards such as SAML, OAuth2, OIDC, and SCIM.
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Develop automation, integrations, and infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and programming languages such as Python and Go.
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Design and implement security controls for AI-powered systems, including controlled, audited, and governed agent workflows, while contributing to core security services such as service identity, secrets management, key management, authentication, and authorization.
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Partner across Security, Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to drive secure-by-design solutions, implement Zero Trust principles, and reduce operational friction.
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Drive technical direction and cross-team initiatives that improve the scalability, reliability, security, and developer experience of our infrastructure.
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Write high-quality, reliable code, participate in architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, and help raise the technical bar across the team.
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Support critical production systems and drive operational excellence through scalability, resiliency, observability, and automation.
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Participate in on-call and incident response for the Developer Productivity organization.
Skills & Qualifications
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7+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Identity & Access Management, Identity Engineering, or Security Engineering.