Senior Engineer

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. 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 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.

• 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 Golang.
• 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 reasonable accommodation, contact careers@coreweave.com.