Senior Compute Services Engineer, CoreWeave
Kubernetes, Bare Metal
$153-204k
+ Equity + Bonus + ESPP
3 days a week in office
The essential cloud for AI
Be an early applicant
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153-204k
+ Equity + Bonus + ESPP
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
- Proven experience provisioning Kubernetes using tools such as kubeadm, Cluster API, Kubeception, Kubespray, or similar
- Demonstrated ability debugging complex kubernetes cluster issues and carrying out upgrades
- Proficiency in Golang, Bash, and Python
- Advanced Linux OS troubleshooting skills
- Extensive experience with Ansible
- Advanced DevOps experience (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively on shared codebases
- Excellent documentation skills and high attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Experience participating in an on-call rotation to support production services
Desirable
- Bare-metal OS provisioning experience
- Kubernetes operator coding experience
- Advanced Linux networking expertise
- AWX/Ansible tower knowledge
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer in Compute Services, you will be responsible for building fault-tolerant and reliable infrastructure to support both our internal processes and our customer platform
- If you’re passionate about GitOps, KubeOps, DevOps—really, all the ops—this role could be a great fit for you!
- Design, develop, and maintain automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal
- Use Python, Golang, and Bash to create tooling and go operators
- Perform day 2 lifecycle tasks and maintenance on running clusters
- Identify gaps and implement fault-tolerant architectures
- Optimize reliability using the Grafana ecosystem
- Design automated testing to validate build quality and stability
- Participate in an on-call rotation every two months serving as point of contact
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.
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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 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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