Staff Production Engineer

What Youll Do

The Production Engineering Tools team builds and operates foundational platforms that make CoreWeaves cloud reliable observable and scalable. The team owns tooling and frameworks that accelerate datacenter delivery reduce operational toil and enable reliability to scale by default as CoreWeave rapidly expands its global footprint.

About the Role

We are hiring a Staff Production Engineer to design build and own the foundational platforms and frameworks that underpin operational excellence across this role you will combine deep technical leadership with hands-on engineering to create systems that improve availability resiliency and delivery velocity at scale.

This is a high-impact role with broad organizational influence. You will develop a deep understanding of CoreWeaves infrastructure and services shape architecture and tooling decisions and partner closely with service owners to operationalize reliability through automation and paved paths rather than manual process or advocacy. Success requires the ability to pivot quickly between hot incidents multi-team programs and initiatives at all levels of the organization.

You will design build and own foundational platforms and frameworks from architecture through adoption and operation. You will lead technical strategy and execution for internal tooling that reduces manual operations improves delivery velocity and supports CoreWeaves revenue growth through faster more reliable datacenter delivery.

You will partner with service owners and platform teams to translate reliability and operational requirements into automation self-service capabilities and opinionated paved paths. You will build and evolve systems for observability alerting automated remediation resiliency testing and authoritative sources of truth operationalizing best practices through tooling rather than manual enforcement.

You will participate in incident response for critical outages with the explicit goal of improving systems tooling and defaults to reduce future operational loadnot as a long-term escalation path. You will ship production code participate in on-call rotations as needed and mentor engineers on platform ownership operational design and sustainable production practices.

Who You Are

• 10 years of experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud platforms at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve complex production failures across services infrastructure and automation layers.
• Strong programming experience (Python Go or similar) with a history of shipping and operating production systems.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native platforms and distributed systems especially Kubernetes.
• Advanced experience with observability and incident practices including metrics tracing structured logs SLIs/SLOs and PIRs.
• Proven ability to lead large technical efforts and influence outcomes across teams without direct authority.
• Track record of delivering durable platform-driven improvements that reduce operational risk and scale with organizational growth
  
  

Preferred

• Ownership of foundational internal platforms or frameworks used broadly across an organization
• Experience with service tiering disaster recovery or business continuity planning chaos engineering or structured resilience programs
• Background operating large-scale AI/cloud infrastructure
• Experience guiding organizations through rapid scale while maintaining operational quality and discipline
  
  

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.

You might be a great fit if:

• You love owning critical systems that must work reliably at massive scale
• You build complex scalable reliable systems from scratch
• You are curious about how to design platforms that make the right operational behavior the easy default
• You are an expert at thinking in terms of failure modes blast radius and long-term operational risk
• You care deeply about operational excellence and want to shape how reliability is practiced at scale

Why CoreWeave

At CoreWeave we work hard have fun and move fast! Were in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. Were not afraid of a little chaos and were constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take off the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry who will want to learn from you too. Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $188000 to $275000. 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).