Senior Software Engineer

What Youll Do:

The Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of our Data Infrastructure organization responsible for the availability reliability scalability and security of the companys data platform. We build and operate the foundational systems that underpin data ingestion transformation analytics and internal AI workloads at scale delivering with production-grade discipline across mission-critical services. Our work is guided by a commitment to automation deep observability and resilience supporting stringent uptime requirements that the broader organization depends on.

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer you will take end-to-end ownership of the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform. You will architect and operate highly available multi-region systems designed to meet rigorous uptime and latency standards. Your day-to-day work will span scaling infrastructure optimizing deployment pipelines and strengthening our security posture while playing a central role in building testing and managing scalable systems that are production-ready from day one.

Who You Are:

• You bring 7 years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering Infrastructure Engineering or building highly scalable distributed systems with a strong foundation in software design development and algorithmic problem-solving.
• Data Platform Experience: Familiarity operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads including distributed processing and streaming frameworks such as Spark Airflow Kafka or Flink.
• Kubernetes & Containerization: Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster design day-to-day operations and production troubleshooting across containerized service environments.
• CI/CD Systems: Proven track record building and operating robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions.
• Production Ownership: Demonstrated experience owning mission-critical systems with high availability requirements (99.99% uptime) including incident response SLI/SLO/SLA definition error budget management and blameless postmortems.
• Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience developing large-scale distributed systems databases and backend APIs.
• Multi-Region Architecture: Practical experience designing and operating geo-replicated active-active multi-region systems with a solid grasp of traffic routing failover strategies and data consistency tradeoffs.
• Observability: Strong experience building and owning full-stack observability solutions including metrics logging and distributed tracing using tools such as Prometheus Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with IaC tooling such as Helm Terraform or Pulumi and experience with automated environment provisioning.
• Performance & Capacity: Strong command of system performance tuning capacity planning and resource optimization in distributed environments.
• Cloud-Native Security: Hands-on experience applying security best practices in cloud-native settings including secrets management network policies and vulnerability scanning.

Preferred:

• Regulated Environments: Experience working within compliance-driven environments and a working knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as GDPR SOC 2 HIPAA or SOX.
• Internal Developer Platforms: Background in designing and building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling that empowers engineering teams to move faster and operate independently.

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 building highly reliable systems that operate at scale
• Youre curious about how to continuously improve system resilience security and operations
• Youre an expert in diagnosing and solving complex distributed systems problems

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 $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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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.

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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.