Senior Engineer, Storage Control Plane

CoreWeave

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Sunnyvale, CA - USA

profile Monthly Salary: $ 139000 - 204000
Posted on: 22 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI. Built for pioneers by pioneers CoreWeave delivers 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 to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017 CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at.

What Youll Do:

Were looking for a Senior Storage Engineer to play a key role in designing building and operating the control plane for our high-performance AI storage platform. Youll help evolve CoreWeaves storage systems by building reliable scalable and high-throughput solutions that power some of the largest and innovative AI workloads in the world. This role involves close collaboration with teams across infrastructure compute and platform to ensure our storage services scale automatically and seamlesslywhile maximizing performance and reliability.

About the role:

  • Design and implement a highly scalable multi-tenant control plane that supports CoreWeaves growing AI storage and cloud infrastructure needs.
  • Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale S3-compatible object storage distributed file system and integrate dedicated storage clusters into diverse customer environments.
  • Work with technologies such as RDMA GPU Direct Storage RoCE InfiniBand SPDK and distributed filesystems to optimize storage performance and efficiency.
  • Participate in efforts to improve the reliability durability and observability of our storage stack.
  • Collaborate with operations teams to monitor analyze and optimize storage systems using telemetry metrics and dashboards to improve performance latency and resilience.
  • Work cross-functionally with platform product and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities across the stack.
  • Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed high-performance systems.

Who You Are:

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.
  • 610 years of experience working in storage systems engineering or infrastructure.
  • Strong hands-on experience with object storage or distributed filesystems in production environments.
  • Experience with one or more storage protocols (e.g. S3 NFS) and file systems such as Ceph DAOS or similar.
  • Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go C or Rust.
  • Familiarity with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines (e.g. ClickHouse Prometheus Grafana).
  • Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure Kubernetes and scalable system architecture.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed high-performance environments.
  • Clear communicator able to work collaboratively across teams and share technical insights effectively.

Wondering if youre a good fit We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams even if you arent a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities weve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you wed love to talk.

The base salary range for this role is $139000 to $204000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge skills experience and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining addition to base salary our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus equity awards and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range weve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications experience interview performance and location.

In addition to a competitive salary we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs including:

  • 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
  • Ability to Participate in 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

Our Workplace

While we prioritize a hybrid work environment remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration

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CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran status or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed please contact: .

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder) (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158 (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may for legitimate business reasons decline to pursue any export licensing process.


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Key Skills

  • Data Center Experience
  • Disaster Recovery
  • VMware
  • Computer Networking
  • NFS
  • Solaris
  • Windows
  • Virtualization
  • Linux
  • SAN
  • Operating Systems
  • Troubleshooting

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