Senior Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration
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Job Location:
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 139000 - 204000
Posted on:
2 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
What Youll Do:
As part of the Cluster Orchestration team you will play a key role in advancing CoreWeaves orchestration platform including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond our Kubernetes-native foundation that powers AI training and inference at scale. This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the AI cloud: ensuring workloads run seamlessly reliably and efficiently across massive GPU clusters. By building the systems that eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and create new orchestration capabilities you will directly empower customers to innovate faster and push the boundaries of whats possible with AI.
About the role:
As a Senior Software Engineer I (IC3) you will own multiple services within the orchestration platform. Youll lead design/code reviews decompose projects into milestones and drive measurable improvements in reliability and performance. Youll define SLIs/SLOs for your services strengthen operational practices and mentor IC1/IC2 engineers. Your work will ensure customers see consistent improvements in throughput latency and system resilience.
Who You Are:
- 35 years of professional software engineering experience building distributed systems or cloud services.
- Strong coding in Go (Python or C a plus) with solid CS fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience running Kubernetes at production scale.
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry).
- Proven ability to improve service reliability and performance using metrics (P95/P99 latency throughput error budgets).
Preferred
- Familiarity with orchestration and workflow technologies such as Ray Kubeflow Kueue Istio Knative or Argo Workflows
- Experience with distributed workloads GPU-based applications or ML pipelines.
- Knowledge of scheduling concepts like quota enforcement pre-emption and scaling strategies.
- Exposure to reliability practices including SLOs alarms and post-incident reviews.
Wondering if youre a good fit We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who can bring their diverse experiences to our teams even if you arent a 100% skill or experience match.
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 takeoff 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 $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
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- AWS
- Data Structures
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
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