Sr. Software Engineer Perf and Benchmarking
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Job Location:
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 139000 - 204000
Posted on:
7 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About this role
Were looking for a Senior Engineer for CoreWeaves Benchmarking & Performance team. You will have an integral part in our planet-scale performance data warehouse: Ingesting storing transforming and analyzing performance events in all the data centers across our global infrastructure. You will also aid us in achieving industry-leading end-to-end performance benchmarking publications such as MLPerf.
You will be an owner who leads designs raises engineering standards and delivers measurable improvements to latency throughput and reliability across multiple services. Youll partner with product orchestration and hardware teams to evolve our Kubernetes-native platform and meet strict P99 SLAs at scale.
What youll do
- Build and improve Kubernetes-native benchmarking services that measure latency throughput jitter and cost-per-request across CoreWeaves compute stack.
- Implement and maintain benchmarking workflows for end-to-end MLPerf Training and Inference runs including workload setup cluster configuration runbooks and result validation.
- Lead design reviews and drive architecture within the team; decompose multi-service work into clear milestones.
- Mentor junior engineers; review cross-team designs and elevate coding/testing standards.
- Help ensure reproducible well-documented benchmarking processes.
Who you are
- 5 years of experience building distributed systems high-performance computing or cloud services.
- Strong coding in Python or Go (C a plus) and deep familiarity with networked systems and performance.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at production scale CI/CD and observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry).
- Experience with performance-critical GPU systems (CUDA NCCL RDMA NVLink/PCIe memory bandwidth) and model-serving stacks (llm-d vLLM TensorRT-LLM Megatron-LM).
- Strong communicator comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners.
Nice to have
- Experience with time-series databases LSM-based storage engines or custom data pipelines.
- Experience running MLPerf submissions or similar large-scale audited benchmarks.
- Contributions to OSS projects such as llm-d vLLM or PyTorch.
- Exposure to benchmarking large GPU fleets or multi-region clusters.
- Experience with CUDA kernels NCCL/SHARP RDMA/NUMA or GPU interconnect topologies.
Why CoreWeave
Help shape an industry-defining inference platform that enables teams to deploy generative AI and real-time applications at scale. If optimizing tail latency and delivering reliable model serving excites you this is the place to build.
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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Client Servicing
- Apache
- Community Support
- FIDIC
- Data Analysis
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