Staff Software Engineer, CoreWeave
AI Workload Orchestration
$188-275k
+ Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
The essential cloud for AI
Open for applications
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$188-275k
+ Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
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
- 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
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer (IC5) on the AI Workload Orchestration Platform team, you will act as a technical leader for CoreWeave’s 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
- 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
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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