Staff Software Engineer, CoreWeave
Cluster Orch (SUNK)
$207-275k
+ Equity awards + Discretionary bonus + Employee Stock Purchase Program
The essential cloud for AI
Be an early applicant
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$207-275k
+ Equity awards + Discretionary bonus + Employee Stock Purchase Program
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
- 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
- Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals and cloud-native development
- Advanced proficiency in Go and distributed systems design
- Experience setting technical direction and influencing cross-team architecture
- Ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate organizational standards
- You love defining long-term architecture for systems at global scale
- You’re curious about orchestration beyond SUNK and how to evolve it for next-generation AI
- You’re an expert at mentorship, architecture, and operational excellence across teams
- You thrive on solving problems that balance cost, performance, and reliability in high-demand environments
Desirable
- Familiarity with orchestration and workflow technologies such as Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, or Argo Workflows
- Experience with distributed workloads, GPU-based applications, or ML pipelines
- Knowledge of scheduling concepts like quota enforcement, pre-emption, and scaling strategies
- Exposure to reliability practices including SLOs, alarms, and post-incident reviews
- Experience with AI infrastructure and workloads (ML training, inference, or HPC)
What the job involves
- As part of the Cluster Orchestration team, you will play a key role in advancing CoreWeave’s orchestration platform including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond, our Kubernetes-native foundation that powers AI training and inference at scale
- This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the AI cloud: ensuring workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters
- By building the systems that eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and create new orchestration capabilities, you will directly empower customers to innovate faster and push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI
- As a Staff Engineer (IC5), you will be a technical leader shaping the long-term strategy for CoreWeave’s orchestration platform
- You’ll define architectural direction, own critical parts of the orchestration platform and other managed services, and drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling at hyperscale
- You’ll mentor senior engineers, establish org-wide best practices in reliability and observability, and ensure CoreWeave’s orchestration layer evolves to meet the demands of next-generation AI workloads
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 a very powerful position to keep riding (and helping shape) the AI boom.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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 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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