Senior Production Engineer, Tooling & Frameworks
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Job Location:
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 139000 - 204000
Posted on:
3 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the Role
Production Engineering ensures CoreWeaves cloud runs with world-class reliability performance and operational excellence. Herd is our newest innovation: an agentic AI platform that serves as CoreWeaves intelligent SRE assistant - combining AI reasoning data infrastructure and observability into an autonomous operational intelligence layer for internal use.
As a Production Engineer on Herd youll define and build the systems that power a scalable agentic ecosystem. Youll design distributed services and data pipelines that process embed and retrieve operational knowledge at scale enabling LLM-powered agents to work alongside human engineers in production. This is a hands-on role at the intersection of AI operations distributed systems and data infrastructure.
What Youll Do
- Architect and build large-scale distributed systems that power AI SRE Platforms.
- Design data infrastructure for AI reasoning (embedding generation context retrieval vector stores) optimized for real-time operational queries.
- Build agent orchestration and lifecycle components so agents can communicate delegate and reason collectively across CoreWeave systems.
- Integrate AI SRE Platform with a large number of internal systems (Kubernetes observability platforms etc.) to enable end-to-end automation and insights.
- Lead architectural design discussions and set technical direction for AI-driven reliability systems.
- Partner across Production Engineering Data Engineering ML Infrastructure and Platform to operate AI SRE as a high-availability platform embedded in critical reliability workflows.
- Develop services that interpret telemetry detect anomalies and generate RCA (root cause analysis) and PIR (post-incident review) artifacts; trigger automated mitigations where appropriate.
- Codify operational best practices into services APIs and Kubernetes-native components.
- Participate in an on-call rotation supporting the systems you build.
What Youve Worked On (Minimum Qualifications)
- 5 years in software or infrastructure engineering building and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Proficiency in Python (or similar) with experience delivering production microservices and data pipelines.
- Expertise in Kubernetes container orchestration and cloud-native architectures.
- Strong understanding of data systems (streaming indexing caching ETL).
- Demonstrated experience designing for scalability fault tolerance and performance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building RAG systems or embedding-based search.
- Familiarity with vector databases and text/signal retrieval systems.
- Experience developing or deploying agentic AI systems (LLM-based automation AI observability).
- Strong distributed-systems background (consensus message buses job orchestration eventual consistency).
- Experience designing data schemas and APIs for knowledge representation and operational reasoning.
- Familiarity with ChatOps frameworks or workflow orchestration (Temporal Argo Airflow).
- Background in MLOps AI infrastructure or platform reliability engineering.
- Experience with observability frameworks (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry) and using telemetry for automated reasoning or remediation.
Why CoreWeave
At CoreWeave we work hard have fun and move fast. Youll join a team that values curiosity ownership and creative problem-solving. As part of Production Engineering youll operate at the intersection of AI and reliability building systems that make operating the most powerful AI cloud in the world smarter every day.
Core Values:
- Be Curious at Your Core
- Act Like an Owner
- Empower Employees
- Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
- Achieve More Together
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
California Consumer Privacy Act - California applicants only
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
- Lean Manufacturing
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Electrical Engineering
- Debugging
- Elasticsearch
- Conflict Management
- SAP Manufacturing
- Process Engineering
- As9100
- Manufacturing
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