Backend Software Engineer, CoreWeave
Cloud Platform
The essential cloud for AI
Job no longer available
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To manage the complexities of AI growth to make supercomputing accessible and push the limits of what's possible.
Role
Who you are
- Professional experience building and maintaining production-grade backend services
- Strong proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or TypeScript
- Experience with authentication, authorization and security best practices
- Familiarity with observability practices including metrics and logging
- Solid understanding of CI/CD and software testing best-practices
- Solid understanding of database design and experience with SQL
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members
- Demonstrated ownership of code quality, performance, and maintainability from development through production
- Applicants must have work authorization that does not require sponsorship from the company now or in the future
Desirable
- Experience with Kubernetes and a conceptual understanding of its major components
- Prior experience building reliable and scalable platform services that process large amounts of data
- Proven experience with Prometheus/PromQL, including optimizing time series queries, and/or integrating Prometheus with large-scale systems for monitoring and analytics
- Experience with managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools and practices
What the job involves
- The Cloud Platform team is a high-visibility team responsible for the interfaces to our customer-facing products
- We own our cloud developer experience, providing our customers observability into their cloud resources and enabling effective, cohesive interfaces to manage them via our Console UI, REST/gRPC API, Infrastructure-as-code, CLI and SDKs
- We also own our billing platform and administrative tools for internal and external customers
- We’re looking to grow our team across multiple experience levels to meet the growing demand for CoreWeave services
- As a Backend Software Engineer on the Cloud Platform team, you will play a key role in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining the backend systems described above
- You’ll be working at the intersection of design, developer experience, and platform architecture to help scale CoreWeave’s Cloud Platform
- Some of what you’ll work on:
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across CoreWeave, including frontend engineers, product managers and designers to shape the team’s strategy and roadmap
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure and performant backend services, APIs, and databases for our next-generation systems
- Participate in design discussions and architectural decisions to drive technical solutions that align with our business goals
- Contribute to software development best-practices, including writing maintainable and testable code and participating in thorough code reviews
- Debug and resolve production issues in a timely manner, providing high-level support when necessary
- Work with a passionate team of engineers in an iterative, high-trust agile environment
Our take
As AI continues to dominate the tech landscape, the demand for faster, more efficient cloud infrastructure is only intensifying. Traditional cloud providers often struggle with the sheer speed and scale required to power advanced AI models, leaving a gap for more specialized players. And that's where CoreWeave comes in, a company purpose-built to handle the heavy computational lift that the AI era demands.
CoreWeave's story is an interesting one too. What began in 2017 as a small crypto mining venture has evolved into one of the leading AI-focused cloud providers in the world. Its data centers are packed with high-end GPUs optimized for machine learning and generative AI, serving major clients like Microsoft and OpenAI. By designing its infrastructure around the needs of modern AI workloads rather than retrofitting older systems, CoreWeave has carved out a distinct and highly valuable niche in the market.
That focus in paying off in a big way too. Analyst project CoreWeave's revenue to soar from $5.3B in 2025 to the mid-$20Bs by 2028, up from just $16M in 2022. While there is competition from tech giants like Amazon and Google, CoreWeave's speed, specialization, and bold investment strategy put in in avery powerful position to keep riding (and helping shape) the AI boom.
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Insights
194% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2024
$1.1bn
SERIES C
May 2023
$200m
SERIES B
Total funding: $1.7bn
Company benefits
- 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
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Intrator
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Michael was a Principal Portfolio Manager at Natsource Asset Management for over 15 years. He also served as the CEO of Hudson Ridge Asset Management before co-founding CoreWeave in 2018.
Brian Venturo
(Co-Founder & CSO)Brian spent nearly 6 years at Natsource Asset Management as a Portfolio Manager before becoming a Partner at Hudson Ridge Asset Management. After co-founding CoreWeave he served as the CTO until 2024 when he moved into his current role of Chief Strategy Officer.
Brannin McBee
(Co-Founder & CDO)Brannin has a history in Proprietary Trading, having previously worked at Windy Bay Power and Active Power Investments. He also served as a VP at Fourth Floor Coastal and as an Associate at Elustria Capital PArtners.
Peter Salanki
(Co-Founder & CTO)Peter Previously served as a Director of Americas at Sandvine. Prior to that, he spent 11 years at Procera Networks as a Solutions Architect, Lead Architect, and Principal Solutions Architect.
Nitin Agrawal
(CFO)Nitin joined CoreWeave in 2024 as CFO. Prior to this, he was the VP of Finance at Google Cloud and CFO at Mapbox. He also spent nearly 5 years at AWS as CFO of Compute Services and 7 years at Microsoft as Group Manager of Finance.
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