# Senior Software Engineer II, Inference

**Company**: CoreWeave
**Location**: Sunnyvale, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $182,000 to $242,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI. As a Senior Software Engineer II, Inference, you will lead designs, raise engineering standards, and deliver measurable improvements to latency, throughput, and reliability across multiple services.

You will partner with product, orchestration, and hardware teams to evolve our Kubernetes-native inference platform and meet strict P99 SLAs at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead design reviews and drive architecture within the team; decompose multi-service work into clear milestones.

- Define and own SLIs/SLOs; ensure post-incident actions land and reliability improves release-over-release.

- Implement advanced optimizations and quantify impact.

- Strengthen incident posture: capacity planning, autoscaling policy, graceful degradation, rollback/traffic-shift strategies.

- Mentor IC1/IC2 engineers; review cross-team designs and elevate coding/testing standards.

- For IC4: own an area spanning multiple services and teams.

Qualifications:

- IC3: ~3–5 years; IC4: ~5–8 years industry experience building distributed systems or cloud services.

- Strong coding in Python or Go (C++ a plus) and deep familiarity with networked systems and performance.

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at production scale, CI/CD, and observability stacks.

- Practical knowledge of inference internals: batching, caching, mixed precision.

- Proven track record improving tail latency and service reliability through metrics-driven work.

- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field.

The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program.

Benefits include:

- 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

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Go
- C++
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- OpenTelemetry

### Nice to have
- CUDA kernels
- NCCL/SHARP
- RDMA/NUMA
- GPU interconnect topologies
- vLLM
- Triton
- TensorRT-LLM
- Ray Serve
- TorchServe

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