Principal Engineer, CoreWeave

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

$260-300k

+ A discretionary bonus; + Equity

Terraform

Ansible

Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco, CA

Specialized cloud provider

Be an early applicant

Specialized cloud provider

201-500 employees

B2BMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Be an early applicant

$260-300k

+ A discretionary bonus; + Equity

Terraform

Ansible

Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco, CA

201-500 employees

B2BMachine LearningSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

CoreWeave's mission is to deliver a massive scale of GPU compute resources on top of the industry’s fastest and most flexible infrastructure.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or data center-scale architecture
Proven expertise designing and building IaaS or PaaS platforms at scale
Strong systems-level knowledge across compute, storage, networking
Experience with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Salt, or similar) and CI/CD pipelines
Deep familiarity with performance tuning, monitoring, and designing for high availability and failure domains
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent practical experience considered

Desirable

Experience with GPU workloads, AI/ML platforms, or HPC infrastructure
Familiarity with cloud orchestration frameworks, bare-metal provisioning, and SDN concepts
Track record of technical leadership across cross-functional teams and complex infrastructure projects
Leadership in open-source cloud infrastructure projects

What the job involves

CoreWeave is seeking a visionary Principal Engineer to lead the design and guide the implementation of our Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform
This is a senior technical leadership role for a hands-on expert who thrives at the intersection of distributed systems, data center infrastructure, and platform automation
You will define architecture and implementation of cross-functional engineering efforts, and ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of CoreWeave’s compute, network and storage services
Own the end-to-end architecture of CoreWeave’s IaaS platform, including compute, storage, and network services
Design scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure that supports a range of GPU/CPU workloads across all regions and availability zones globally
Develop reference architectures and system designs to support rapid growth and evolving customer needs
Collaborate with Product teams, suppliers and customers to identify requirements for SLAs, cost and performance
Provide deep technical direction to infrastructure engineering teams, guiding design decisions for compute, storage, network services
Establish standards and best practices for cloud-native infrastructure, including observability, resiliency, security, and automation
Drive infrastructure-as-code best practices and platform automation
Optimize provisioning systems to support seamless software updates across 100,000s of nodes and exabytes of storage
Evaluate and integrate innovative technologies across hardware and software including smart NICs, RDMA fabrics, and new memory technologies
Contribute to CoreWeave’s long-term infrastructure strategy—identifying architectural inflection points and scaling opportunities
Leverage innovation in open source and collaborate effectively with open source communities

Our take

Many cloud service providers can suffer from slow prediction speeds when they are used for data modeling. CoreWeave solves this problem with its specialized cloud service provider.

CoreWeave reduces prediction times and makes service requests faster and more efficient. This, in turn, cuts cloud costs considerably. This has proven to be a strong draw for many companies, with CoreWeave signing a lucrative partnership with GPU heavyweight NVIDIA as well as partnering with BitOoda, which has allowed it to expand its operations to the financial market.

However, in 2023 it closed three very significant rounds of funding (Series B and debt and secondary extensions), which is being invested into expanding its US-based data centers, opening two new ones in the coming year. The question remains whether, despite 2023's big investments in the sector, CoreWeave can maintain this momentum and whether generative AI's stock will continue to rise.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

194% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.4)

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 coverage
Life and disability insurance
Flexible Spending Account
401k with employer match
Flexible PTO
Catered lunch
Kinside Childcare Concierge Service
Gym reimbursement

Company HQ

Civic Center, New York, NY

Leadership

Michael Intrator

(CEO, not founder)

Was Principal Portfolio Manager at Natsource Asset Managment for over 15 years. Served as CEO of The Atlantic Crypto Corporation and Hudson Ridge Asset Management.

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