# Distributed Systems Security Engineer at Cerebras Systems

- Company: Cerebras Systems
- What the company does: Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
- Company website: https://www.cerebras.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-21
- Apply by: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cerebras/ce441c5a-5c03-465a-8447-2bf1fdabf370
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cerebras-systems-distributed-systems-security-engineer/

## About the role

Define core security requirements for distributed systems environments, covering everything from secure boot configurations to workload identity in k8s pods Partner with platform, infrastructure, networking, and hardware teams to identify gaps and deliver end-to-end solutions improving the overall security maturity of the environment

## What they're looking for

- 8-10 years of experience with heterogenous compute environments, kubernetes hardening, and general networked system security
- 10+ years with HPCs (high performance clusters)
- Strong hands-on engineering abilities in on-prem and cloud environments
- Ability to work in fragmented ecosystems, hardening both modern k8s deployments as well as bare metal instances
- Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed compute systems a plus
- Strong written communication skills, with the ability to make security concepts approachable for non-specialists

Tags: IT & Security