Senior Software Engineer, CoreWeave
Infrastructure Engineering
$182-242k
Plus a discretionary bonus, and equity awards
The essential cloud for AI
Open for applications
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$182-242k
Plus a discretionary bonus, and equity awards
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
- 7+ years of experience in cloud operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), or related technical roles
- Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, GCP) and basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with incident management practices and frameworks (e.g., ITIL, SRE best practices)
- Proficiency with Go or Python
- Prior experience with Prometheus / Grafana
- Previous experience deploying containerized applications using Kubernetes
- Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Served on an on-call rotation supporting production services
What the job involves
- CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sr. Infrastructure Engineer to join our Hardware Engineering Dev team ( Metal Dev)
- Reporting to the Engineering Manager for Hardware Engineering Dev, you will play a crucial part in the development, deployment, and monitoring of services that manage our bare-metal infrastructure
- You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of highly performant and reliable infrastructure solutions
- Incident Management & Support:
- Lead incident response efforts by identifying and resolving service disruptions quickly, while coaching other junior team members through resolution
- Lead the documentation of incidents, conduct in-depth root cause analysis (RCA), and drive post-incident reviews (PIRs) to identify systemic issues. Implement long term improvements that would prevent service degradation
- Own the development and continuous improvement of incident response playbooks ensuring preparedness for a wide range of failure scenarios
- Clearly communicate efforts during incidents to the management, stakeholders and the cross functional teams, during an incident. Keep clear records of incident activities
- Master clear understanding of various services on how they work in production as well as build through knowledge of the internals of these services and how they interact with the entire stack
- Operational Support & Reliability
- Build a strategy around making our core services perform at its best at scale. This includes improvements to the services for robustness as well as supportability in production
- Own system observability and health leveraging tools like Prometheus and Grafana, to proactively detect performance bottlenecks and prevent incidents
- Lead automation efforts to streamline incident detection and recovery, minimizing manual intervention
- Define and drive KPIs and SLAs for incident management and ensuring alignment with the organizational reliability objectives
- Collaborate with engineers across teams to improve platform reliability, resilience improvements, and disaster recovery
- Collaborate with upstream communities, including Go and Redfish-based services
- Design and implement solutions to build operational efficiency and stability
- Document hardware automation workflows and processes
- Create CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure smooth operation of all aspects of the server hardware lifecycle, from provisioning to end-of-life, by troubleshooting bugs, automating common tasks, and documenting processes
- Partner with the Fleet Operations Team to design scalable tooling and processes that enables self-service and reduction in escalation overhead
- Build out dashboards and alerts to make efficient operational troubleshooting
- Participate in on-call rotation as well as triage issues that are posted in support channels on an ongoing basis
- This role is responsible for reducing on-call queries and incidents over time
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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