Senior Engineer, Prime Systems & Services

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™, delivering a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.

Prime Systems & Services builds and operates foundational Kubernetes infrastructure and shared services used across CoreWeave’s cloud. We are a new team focused on making these systems reliable at cloud scale through strong engineering, durable automation, and clear ownership. We are seeking a Senior Engineer to design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure and shared services. This is a hands-on role spanning software, systems, and reliability engineering. You will own work from design through production operation, improve how infrastructure is deployed and maintained, and participate in on-call for the systems you build. This position may be hired at Senior Engineer I or Senior Engineer II; this will be determined during the interview process based on problem complexity, independence, technical leadership, and breadth of impact. At Senior Engineer II, expectations include setting technical direction for ambiguous problems and leading the architecture and long-term evolution of foundational systems.

• Own Kubernetes infrastructure and services across their full lifecycle, including provisioning, upgrades, fleet-scale change, and failure recovery.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, upgrades, maintenance, and recovery workflows.
• Improve testing, observability, delivery safety, and operational readiness.
• Hardware procurement, supply chain alignment, and expansion + buildout management.
• Troubleshoot complex production failures and turn what you learn into durable fixes.
• Define service health measures and drive reliability improvements using operational data.
• Reduce recurring toil through software, automation, and self-service capabilities.
• Review technical work, document important decisions, and mentor other engineers.
• Work across engineering teams to solve shared infrastructure problems.

• 5+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or production engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Operated production Kubernetes clusters or Kubernetes-based platforms at scale.
• Strong Linux and systems fundamentals and can troubleshoot across networking, storage, containers, and distributed services.
• Build production-quality software and automation in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or GitOps tools.
• Understand observability, SLOs, incident response, fault-tolerant design, and safe production changes.
• Independently take an ambiguous problem from discovery through implementation and sustained operation.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and collaborate effectively across team boundaries.

• Experience operating Kubernetes on bare metal or managing large fleets of clusters.
• Experience with Kubernetes controllers, operators, APIs, or platform services.
• Experience building automated testing and progressive delivery for infrastructure.
• Experience leading cross-team technical work or mentoring engineers.

The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility). Benefits include: Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave; Company-paid Life Insurance; Voluntary supplemental life insurance; Short and long-term disability insurance; Flexible Spending Account; Health Savings Account; Tuition Reimbursement; Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP); Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health; Family-Forming support provided by Carrot; Paid Parental Leave; Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside; 401(k) with a generous employer match; Flexible PTO; Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations; A casual work environment; A work culture focused on innovative disruption.

Apply via the CoreWeave careers page for this role. For accommodation requests, contact careers@coreweave.com.