Senior Manager - Cluster Security

About the 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.

About The Role

In this role, you will be the security czar for the Cerebras’s AI cluster product. Such AI clusters have 100’s of Wafer-scale accelerator systems, 1000’s of high-end servers, and several 1000’s of networking ports including switches. Plus, there will be network attached storage, all in a large-scale datacenter.

You will ensure that Cerebras’s large-scale AI clusters are secured through first-principles, best practices, security-first based engineering. Cerebras cluster involves complex HW components, networking and a vertically integrated cluster management software stack - all the way from a bare-metal deployment that brings up an operational cluster to a suite of cluster management software that enables multi-tenant higher-level training and inference services to be hosted on such large clusters.

Your role will be to ensure both end-to-end security as well as privacy of such cluster use-cases. You will develop security engineering solutions that have the necessary network access control, user access controls, and world-class multi-tenancy solution

Responsibilities

• Be the primary engineering face and owner of cluster security.
• Provide strong technical leadership in cluster security for the company.
• Actively work with corporate security, and customers to identify and define security enhancements needed.
• Build engineering driven software that will provide guardrails, detection solution and response tools for vulnerabilities at all layers of vertical stack (includes HW and SW).
• Straddle vertically and horizontally cross functional collaboration to ensure end-to-end cluster software is secure.
• Develop, maintain and execute roadmap of the cluster security product.
• Build an outstanding engineering team to deliver world-class security solution.

Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years of demonstrated engineering leadership/management role in distributed systems security.
• Proven track record of delivering product, launching and deploying secured distributed solutions to customers.
• Excellent communication, articulation, collaboration and ability to act as a stakeholder.
• Tough decision-making skills with data and trade-off analysis.
• Outstanding sense for product and user journeys, out-of-box thinker.
• Outstanding road map and schedule execution skills under tight timeline and budgets.
• Strong background in multi-tenancy of large scale clusters is necessary.
• Strong technical experience in computer and cluster networks is necessary.
• Strong technical background in distributed systems software development (K8s and its ecosystem) is preferred.
• Technical experience with bare metal cluster management software and related monitoring is preferred.

Pay and benefits

The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $240,000 annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.