Principal Engineer, CoreWeave
Managed Databases
$227-303k
+ Discretionary bonus & Equity awards for eligible roles
3 days a week in office
The essential cloud for AI
Open for applications
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$227-303k
+ Discretionary bonus & Equity awards for eligible roles
3 days a week in office
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
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, with a focus on reliability and scale. Hands-on technical leader
- Prior experience with managed databases as a SaaS offering
- Proven experience building products to address customer needs
- Prior experience of building AI features in production is a plus
- Proficiency in Golang or Python
- Strong understanding of cloud computing infrastructure using Kubernetes, scalable architectures, and automation
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize problem statements from interactions with customers and design solutions given ambiguous requirements
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey storage engineering strategies and practices to technical and non-technical audiences
- 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
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Principal Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and operations of Managed databases for AI-workloads
- In this role, you will help shape the vision and direction on how customers and internal stakeholders store and access operational data for AI/ML workloads
- Further, the role will define the strategy and lead vertical stack integration of data needs for AI inferencing and Agentic flows
- You will have direct access to customers and work closely with engineering stakeholders across CoreWeave products
- Define and drive CoreWeave’s Managed databases technical roadmap and strategy
- Design and implement advanced database solutions applicable to AI workloads, while ensuring fault tolerance, high-scale and low-latency
- Build solutions that offer programmatic access to creating, scaling, and modifying databases
- Champion initiatives to improve reliability, durability, and self-healing capabilities of systems, and assume operational responsibilities
- Develop operational review practices to assess performance against targets and iterating on those targets
- Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices in product engineering, fostering a customer-focused approach to systems design and technical excellence
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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