Senior Production Engineer (Reliability)

About the Role

Production Engineering ensures CoreWeaves cloud delivers world-class reliability performance and operational excellence. We are hiring a Senior Production Engineer to take direct hands-on ownership of critical tooling that drives reliability and delivery success.

In this role you will work broadly across the cloud stack designing implementing deploying and operating systems that improve delivery velocity service availability and operational safety. Youll be responsible for leading end-to-end technical projects maintaining long-lived systems the team owns and strengthening our operational foundations through durable engineering investments.

This is a role for someone who enjoys building debugging and operating production systems. You will collaborate closely with service owners but your primary impact comes from the reliability quality and maturity of the systems you deliver and maintain over time.

What Youll Do

• Take hands-on ownership of critical systems and frameworks driving their architecture implementation and long-term evolution.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of engineering projects that improve availability scalability operational automation and failure recovery.
• Build and maintain observability alerting automated remediation and resilience testing for the systems you support.
• Participate in incident response as a subject-matter expert; drive deep root-cause investigations and implement lasting fixes.
• Improve runbooks sources of truth deployment workflows and operational tooling to harden production readiness.
• Eliminate single points of failure and reduce operational toil through automation refactors and system redesigns.
• Ship production code regularly in Python Go or similar languages and participate in on-call rotations.
• Maintain and mature long-term projects and frameworks owned by the team ensuring they remain reliable well-instrumented and easy to operate.
• Collaborate with platform teams to ensure new features and services integrate cleanly with our reliability best-practices and tooling.

What Youve Worked On (Minimum Qualifications)

• 7 years of engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex production issues end-to-end across services infrastructure layers and automation.
• Strong programming or scripting ability (Python Go or similar) with experience shipping and operating production services and tools.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native technologies and distributed system patterns particularly Kubernetes.
• Experience with modern observability stacks: metrics tracing structured logs SLOs/SLIs and incident lifecycle practices.
• A track record of successfully delivering hands-on reliability improvements through engineering execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building internal tooling frameworks or automation that supports high-availability cloud operations.
• Familiarity with DR/BCP service tiering capacity planning or chaos engineering.
• Background operating or building large-scale AI or GPU-accelerated infrastructure.
• Experience maintaining multi-year ownership of foundational production systems.

The base salary range for this role is $182000 to $242000. 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. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings; for roles in other locations benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• 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

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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.