Staff Software Engineer, CoreWeave
$188-275k
+ Equity + Discretionary Bonus + ESPP
3+ days a week in office (Manhattan, NY)
The essential cloud for AI
Open for applications
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$188-275k
+ Equity + Discretionary Bonus + ESPP
3+ days a week in office (Manhattan, NY)
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
- B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on infrastructure, cloud engineering, and distributed databases—particularly within large-scale datacenter and cloud environments
- Expertise in Go and proven experience building REST/gRPC APIs for mission-critical platforms
- Strong background in architecting and scaling cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure and distributed services
- Proven success in mentoring engineers, leading technical projects, and influencing engineering strategy across teams
- Experience contributing to and collaborating with open source communities
- Skilled in applying a data-driven approach to reliability, optimization, and continuous improvement
- Excellent communicator able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, PromQL), CI/CD pipelines, and operating large fleets of GPU servers
- Track record of leading incident response, postmortems, and driving robust service reliability
Desirable
- Working knowledge of Kafka, ClickHouse and CRDB
- DMTF, RedFish APIs, and GPU servers
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll shape the backbone of our GPU-driven data centers—powering some of the most advanced workloads in AI and large-scale computing
- This isn’t just about keeping the lights on; it’s about architecting the next generation of reliable, secure, and massively scalable infrastructure
- The METALDEV team builds and operates a suite of Go-based services that power large-scale datacenter deployments
- These platforms automate complex workflows while providing deep observability and monitoring for tens of thousands of GPU servers and diverse infrastructure components—including CDUs, PDUs, and NVLink switches
- Our tooling is designed for next-generation rack systems like NVIDIA GB200 and GB300, as well as a broad range of GPU server platforms
- Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and operating large-scale infrastructure services for GPU servers, with a focus on security, reliability, and scalability
- Build and enhance infrastructure services and automation, including inventory management systems and lifecycle management solutions using open source technologies
- Drive strategic direction for infrastructure automation, lifecycle management, and service orchestration, making MetalDev core services more scalable and resilient
- Define best practices for API development (REST/gRPC), distributed databases, and Kubernetes orchestration—while mentoring engineers to follow your lead
- Partner with hardware, software, and operations teams to align infrastructure with business impact
- Contribute to open source communities (e.g., Go, Redfish) through collaboration and technical thought leadership
- Lead and improve CI/CD pipelines for hardware compliance, firmware management, and data systems
- Champion reliability and operational excellence by driving observability (Prometheus/Grafana), production incident response, and continuous service improvement
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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