Senior Software Engineer, CoreWeave

• ~3–5 years of professional software engineering experience building distributed systems or cloud services
• Strong coding in Go (Python or C++ a plus) with solid CS fundamentals
• Hands-on experience running Kubernetes at production scale
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Proven ability to improve service reliability and performance using metrics (P95/P99 latency, throughput, error budgets)
• 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. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process

Desirable

• 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 Senior Software Engineer I (IC3), you will own multiple services within the orchestration platform
• You’ll lead design/code reviews, decompose projects into milestones, and drive measurable improvements in reliability and performance
• You’ll define SLIs/SLOs for your services, strengthen operational practices, and mentor IC1/IC2 engineers
• Your work will ensure customers see consistent improvements in throughput, latency, and system resilience