Software Engineer, CoreWeave
Infrastructure
$160-225k
More information about location
Office located in Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA
The essential cloud for AI
Job no longer available
The essential cloud for AI
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$160-225k
More information about location
Office located in Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / 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
- 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering
- Proficiency in Go
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Argo, Flux, and GitHub Actions
- Strong understanding of Linux internals
- Designing, implementing, and monitoring Kubernetes operators for custom resource definitions
Desirable
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt
- Experience with cloud computing reliability engineering principles, including testing strategies, observability, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design
- Ability to break down complex problems into achievable tasks and collaborate with teammates to execute them
- Willingness and ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for Engineers that thrive at the intersection of software and systems, deploying and managing large scale bare metal compute
- Within this domain, you’ll design and build software that manages complex infrastructure across globally distributed datacenters. Working in Go, deep in Linux environments, and leveraging technologies like gRPC and Kubernetes CRs/Controllers/Operators
- Whether you’re automating bare metal, building fleet lifecycle management services, or solving multi-layer integration challenges, your work will be critical to the company's delivery of reliable and efficient infrastructure
- You’ll join a high-performing, communicative, and supportive team, solving complex problems at hyperscale, deploying purpose built AI across the world
- Design and implement solutions to problems of scale for multi-site deployment and management of CoreWeave’s global hardware fleet
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs (gRPC/REST) in Go to interact with Kubernetes and other infrastructure systems
- Develop provisioning services, automation workflows, and fleet management tools that span from bare metal to container orchestration
- Write and maintain Kubernetes custom controllers and operators to automate infrastructure behavior
- Create test plans, deployment automation, dashboards, alerts, and insights into our fleet operations
- Resolve integration challenges across the entire infrastructure stack, from data center hardware to orchestration platforms
- Participate in an on-call rotation
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 avery powerful position to keep riding (and helping shape) the AI boom.
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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 insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
- 401(k) with a generous employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
- A casual work environment
- A work culture focused on innovative disruption
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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