Systems Engineer, CoreWeave
Automation
$130-220k
Office located in Roseland, NJ or Brooklyn, NY
The essential cloud for AI
Job no longer available
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$130-220k
Office located in Roseland, NJ or Brooklyn, 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
- Must have at least 5 years of professional experience maintaining large fleets of Linux servers
- Fluency with a programming language geared toward automation
- Experience with managing authentication and privileged access
- Experience with security patching and adhering to structured release cycles
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub or GitLab)
- Ability to effectively prioritize and communicate proposed features and fixes
- Strong passion for automation, with a commitment to automating processes comprehensively
- Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Desirable
- Experience building and/or extending automation frameworks
- Familiarity with Golang
- Opinions about software version control and team collaboration
- Experience writing software tests
What the job involves
- CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Systems Automation Engineer to join our Kernel HAVOCK Team, reporting into the Director of Compute Architecture
- In this role, you will play a crucial part in the design, development, and optimization of our bare-metal systems from POST through joining a Kubernetes cluster
- The team’s primary responsibilities include maintaining a custom Linux kernel, various OS images (Ubuntu-based), the virtualization stack (kubevirt/qemu/vfio), and the container/pod runtime stack (containerd/nydus/kubelet)
- You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, up stack engineering teams, and stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of highly performant and reliable software solutions
- Develop and maintain tooling to support both stateless and stateful systems
- Automate packaging of critical components (e.g. drivers, microcode, components with out-of-tree patches, etc)
- Build long-lived, well documented tooling for automating various tasks related to the full lifecycle of systems (e.g. hardware/software inventory management, hardware diagnostics, performance benchmarking, etc)
- Build and serve as a senior point of contact for CI/CD pipelines for reproducible software builds, OS images, and system startup automation
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define Linux and OS requirements, specifications, and system architecture
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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