Staff Software Engineer, CoreWeave
Data Infrastructure Services
$207-275k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
The essential cloud for AI
Be an early applicant
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$207-275k
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
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
- Wondering if you’re a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are some qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If a portion of this resonates with you, we’d love to talk
- You have 15+ years of experience in a software or infrastructure engineering industry
- You understand data consistency and concurrency models, can clearly define data models and establish guidelines around data management
- You’re familiar with distributed NewSQL datastores such as CockroachDB, TiDB, YDB, Yugabyte and/or stream processing tools such as NATS or Kafka
- You have experience with designing and operating these systems at scale
- You’re familiar with Kubernetes and have interest or experience with using it for event-driven and/or stateful orchestration
- You’re excited to have the opportunity to contribute to a Kubernetes operator in order to manage data systems
- You know your way around a Linux distro, shell scripting, and the Linux storage and networking stacks
- You can transform problems in elastic solutions, decompose them into achievable tasks, and socialize both to your teammates
- You have production level proficiency in Go or Python and you’re interested in contributing to open source
What the job involves
- The Data Platforms Team serves as the experts on data ingestion, data flow and retrieval for CoreWeave
- This team is responsible for the development of use cases, discovery of innovative solutions, automation and operations of our data platform infrastructure
- We are seeking a Staff engineer with specialization in data platforms and stream processing who can help us fulfill the goal of our multi-regional datastore strategy and establish communication models for our data flow
- This individual will work with a team of 6-8 mixed skill engineers and have the opportunity to work on a full range of rewarding challenges that come with building in a communicative, supportive, and high-performing environment
- As a member of the Data Platforms Team you will have the opportunity to:
- Drive technical decision-making to accelerate delivery, mentor engineers, and grow team capability
- Champion event-driven architecture adoption and build consensus across the organization
- Identify and develop applications for the organization's data. This involves understanding business needs and creating solutions that leverage data effectively
- Design and implement the platform to deliver data to teams with a focus on providing managed solutions
- Develop a stream processing architecture and solve for scalability and reliability
- Improve the performance, security, reliability, and scalability of our data platforms, and related services and participate in the teams on-call rotation
- Establish guidelines, guard rails for data access and storage for stakeholder teams
- Ensure compliance with standards for data protection regulation
- Grow, change, invest in your teammates, be invested-in, share your ideas, listen to others, be curious, have fun, and, above all, be yourself
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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