Senior SDET Inference Platform
Summary
Senior SDET who designs and maintains automated test infrastructure for Cerebras' AI inference platform: validating Kubernetes deployments across cloud and hardware environments, testing CI/CD, ingress, NGINX, and load balancing, and debugging distributed-system issues, primarily using Python or Go.
You will build and maintain automated test infrastructure for an inference platform. You will validate Kubernetes deployments in cloud and hardware environments, test CI/CD, ingress, service discovery, NGINX, and load balancing, and investigate distributed-system issues. You will develop testbeds, identify reliability risks, improve observability and debugging, and create validation strategies for platform releases.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain test infrastructure and automation
- Validate the platform across cloud-managed Kubernetes and hardware deployments
- Test Kubernetes workloads, CI/CD pipelines, ingress, service discovery, NGINX, and load balancing
- Collaborate to ensure platform features ship reliably
- Investigate and debug networking, orchestration, deployment, and distributed-service issues
- Develop and maintain testbeds for performance, scalability, and reliability validation
- Identify failure points, bottlenecks, and edge cases affecting platform stability
- Contribute test plans and validation strategies for platform releases
- Improve observability, diagnostics, and debugging workflows
- Partner to deliver high-quality production-ready releases
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, systems engineering, or infrastructure development
- Strong programming skills in Python or Go
- Experience building automation tools, testing frameworks, or internal developer tooling
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins
- Experience debugging complex systems, distributed services, or networked infrastructure
- Familiarity with systems-level development, infrastructure tooling, or platform integration
- Problem-solving ability across multiple system and infrastructure layers
- Communication and collaboration skills
- Experience mentoring junior engineers