Staff Storage Engineer, File & Block
CoreWeave- Base salary
- $207k–$303k Published base salary range
- Location
- Hybrid - California, 2-3 days/week Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Staff / Principal
About the job
Company
CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI, a specialized cloud provider delivering GPU compute for AI/ML workloads. Founded in 2017, publicly traded (Nasdaq: CRWV) since March 2025.
Role
Design, build, and operate the file and block storage behind CoreWeave's high-performance AI storage platform. Responsibilities include designing a highly scalable multi-tenant control plane, contributing to exabyte-scale S3-compatible object storage and distributed file systems, integrating dedicated storage clusters into customer environments, working with RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, SPDK, and distributed filesystems, improving reliability, durability, and observability, collaborating with operations teams on telemetry and dashboards, and mentoring engineers.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 10+ years in storage systems engineering or infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with object storage or distributed filesystems in production
- Experience with storage protocols (S3, NFS) and file systems (Ceph, DAOS)
- Proficiency in Go, C++, or Rust
- Familiarity with observability tools (ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable architecture
Compensation
Base salary range $207,000-$303,000, plus discretionary bonus, equity awards, and comprehensive benefits.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% paid), life insurance, short/long-term disability, FSA, HSA, tuition reimbursement, ESPP, mental wellness benefits, family-forming support, paid parental leave, childcare support, 401(k) with match, flexible PTO, catered lunch.
Application
Apply via the CoreWeave careers page. This position requires access to export controlled information; applicants must be US persons or eligible for export authorization.
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