Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orch (Non SUNK)

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer (IC5) on the AI Workload Orchestration Platform team you will act as a technical leader for CoreWeaves Kubernetes-native orchestration strategy for AI workloads.

You will define and evolve the architecture for how AI workloads are admitted scheduled and governed across large GPU clusters using frameworks such as Kueue Volcano and Ray. This platform serves as a strategic complement to SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and underpins both training and inference workloads across the CoreWeave cloud.

This role requires strong systems thinking cross-team influence and a long-term view of platform scalability reliability and developer experience.

What Youll Do

• Own the technical vision and architecture for major portions of the AI Workload Orchestration Platform
  
  
• Design scalable reliable orchestration primitives for AI workloads across multiple schedulers and runtimes
  
  
• Lead cross-team architecture reviews and drive alignment across infrastructure CKS and managed inference teams
  
  
• Define platform standards for reliability observability capacity management and operational excellence
  
  
• Identify and resolve systemic performance scalability and fairness issues across large GPU clusters
  
  
• Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leadership within the organization
  
  
• Represent the platform in technical reviews and influence broader CoreWeave platform strategy
  
  

Who You Are

• 8 years of professional software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems or cloud platforms
  
  
• Strong proficiency in Go and experience designing large-scale long-lived production systems
  
  
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals scheduling mechanisms and controller-based architectures
  
  
• Demonstrated experience designing or evolving orchestration scheduling or resource-management platforms
  
  
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across teams without direct authority
  
  
• Strong operational mindset with experience owning mission-critical systems at scale
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Kueue Volcano Ray or similar Kubernetes-native orchestration frameworks
  
  
• Background in AI infrastructure ML platforms HPC or large-scale batch and streaming systems
  
  
• Deep understanding of scheduling concepts including fairness pre-emption quota management and multi-tenant isolation
  
  
• Experience defining and operating SLOs capacity models and large-scale reliability improvements
  
  
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or orchestration projects

The base salary range for this role is 369000 - 542300 PLN 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).

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What We Offer

In addition to a competitive salary we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs including:

• Family-level Medical Insurance
• Family-level Dental Insurance
• Generous Pension Contribution
• Life Assurance at 4x Salary
• Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Work culture focused on innovative disruption

Benefits may vary by location.

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