Senior Manager, Observability

What Youll Do:
The Observability Engineering organization at CoreWeave is responsible for the platforms and practices that help engineers understand operate and improve production systems at scale. This team owns and evolves the foundations for metrics logs traces telemetry pipelines and observability reliability enabling teams to detect issues quickly troubleshoot complex distributed systems and operate AI infrastructure with confidence. As CoreWeave continues to scale observability plays a critical role in delivering reliable platform experiences improving engineering velocity and maintaining operational excellence across a rapidly growing cloud environment.

About the role:
CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Manager Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building scaling and operating observability systems across metrics logs traces and telemetry this role you will define strategy and roadmap drive platform reliability and performance improvements and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure. You will partner closely with infrastructure platform security and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility. This role combines technical leadership operational ownership and team management to ensure observability platforms scale with business and customer needs.

Who You Are:

• 8 years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale
• 4 years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads
• Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs metrics traces and alerting in distributed systems
• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs SLIs incident management error budgets and fault-tolerant design
• Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines storage backends and query layers
• Experience with distributed systems performance engineering and trade-offs involving scale resilience and cost
• Experience partnering with infrastructure security and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption
• Experience hiring and managing engineering teams

Preferred:

• Experience with OpenTelemetry Grafana Prometheus-compatible systems log aggregation and distributed tracing tools
• Experience operating cloud-native infrastructure including Kubernetes environments
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud developer platforms or AI/ML infrastructure
• Familiarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systems
• Experience scaling platforms in high-growth environments

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 love solving complex systems problems across infrastructure reliability and developer productivity
• Youre curious about improving observability debugging workflows and large-scale distributed systems
• Youre an expert in balancing scalability reliability and cost in production environments

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 enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff the organizations growth opportunities 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).

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.