Senior Backend Engineer, Inference Cloud

Sunnyvale, CA, Remote. Posted 23 days ago

The role

You will build and scale services that power Cerebras Inference Cloud. You will design and implement APIs, backend services, and data pipelines to support the Developer Console and other cloud systems.

What you will do

Own critical backend systems including billing, usage metering, quotas, account management, request logs, and metrics.
Design and implement APIs, backend services, and data pipelines.
Define service boundaries, data models, and processing patterns.
Build integrations between customer-facing workflows, internal services, and infrastructure.
Drive projects from idea to production.
Improve observability, debugging, testing, and recovery.
Investigate production issues and address underlying causes.
Guide design reviews, mentor engineers, and coordinate execution across teams.
Partner with frontend engineers and other stakeholders to translate customer needs into backend capabilities.

Required qualifications

Experience designing APIs, services, data models, and distributed systems.
Practical understanding of concurrency, consistency, caching, and failure handling.
Track record of designing, delivering, and operating complex production systems.
Database and data-processing experience including schema design and query performance.
Ability to build reliable transactional and asynchronous workflows.
8+ years of industry experience building and operating production software.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

Experience with cloud platforms
Experience with developer tools
Experience with billing and metering systems
Experience with identity and access management
Experience with observability
Experience with high-volume data processing
Experience with GraphQL
Experience with Postgres
Experience with Redis

Benefits

Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU
Publish and open source cutting-edge AI research
Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world
Job stability with startup vitality
Simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs

About the company

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip. The company works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.