Director of Production Engineering, CoreWeave
$230-275k
More information about location
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
Specialized cloud provider
Open for applications
Specialized cloud provider
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$230-275k
More information about location
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
201-500 employees
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.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a thoughtful leader who blends technical depth with strategic vision, and thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments
- If you value clarity over complexity, mentorship over management, and resilience over rigidity, you’ll fit right in
- Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields
- 10+ years in a leadership or senior management role at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or high-growth tech company
- 5+ years of experience in running Kubernetes at scale, including provisioning, node management, control plane tuning, and networking
- Experience hiring, developing, and managing globally distributed 24x7 engineering teams
- Experience in designing and implementing incident management processes including on-call rotations, escalation paths, postmortems, and SLO/SLA framework
- Strong knowledge of building or scaling automated maintenance workflows, including rolling upgrades, node draining, firmware/driver orchestration, and change control
- Solid foundation in systems engineering, with a deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and storage architecture
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence product, platform, hardware, and security teams
Desirable
- Experience building platform tooling and internal developer portals to improve engineering velocity and operational visibility
- Familiarity with GPU-accelerated workloads, including resource isolation, scheduling, and performance tuning
- Experience working in AI infrastructure environments supporting training or inference at scale
- Background in compliance, reliability risk modeling, or operational maturity assessments (e.g., RTO/RPO, chaos engineering)
- Prior leadership experience in bare metal infrastructure environments (e.g., custom data centers, edge compute, HPC clusters)
- Working knowledge of DPUs, service mesh architectures, and multi-tenant security models
What the job involves
- As we continue to scale the CoreWeave Cloud Platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational efficiency in a live production environment is mission-critical
- We’re seeking a Director of Production Engineering to lead and expand our SRE team and practices
- This leader will play a key role in shaping the resilience and reliability of our platform, partnering closely with engineering and product teams to build systems and services that are secure, scalable, and highly efficient
- You will champion a culture of operational excellence, automation, and ownership, empowering our cloud platform to scale confidently and operate with agility
- Define and execute the Production Engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large-scale, AI purposed-built cloud infrastructure
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of production engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning
- Champion automation-first practices, leveraging tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, AI, and Infrastructure-as-Code to minimize toil and manual interventions
- Establish and evolve best practices in observability, monitoring, and alerting, ensuring the platform is proactive, not reactive
- Drive initiatives for incident management, postmortem culture, root cause analysis, and system hardening
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer support teams to build scalable, resilient, and self-healing systems
- Evolve our on-call strategy and processes to support a 24x7, globally distributed platform with minimal disruptions
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
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 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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