# Principal Engineer - Managed Databases

**Company**: CoreWeave
**Location**: Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $227,000 to $303,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI. We're seeking a highly experienced and strategic Principal Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and operations of Managed databases for AI-workloads.

## Responsibilities

- Define and drive CoreWeave’s Managed databases technical roadmap and strategy.

- Design and implement advanced database solutions applicable to AI workloads, while ensuring fault tolerance, high-scale and low-latency.

- Build solutions that offer programmatic access to creating, scaling, and modifying databases.

- Champion initiatives to improve reliability, durability, and self-healing capabilities of systems, and assume operational responsibilities.

- Develop operational review practices to assess performance against targets and iterating on those targets.

- Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices in product engineering, fostering a customer-focused approach to systems design and technical excellence.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

- 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, with a focus on reliability and scale. Hands-on technical leader.

- Prior experience with managed databases as a SaaS offering.

- Proven experience building products to address customer needs.

- Prior experience of building AI features in production is a plus.

- Proficiency in Golang or Python.

- Strong understanding of cloud computing infrastructure using Kubernetes, scalable architectures, and automation.

- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize problem statements from interactions with customers and design solutions given ambiguous requirements.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey storage engineering strategies and practices to technical and non-technical audiences.

## 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

The base salary range for this role is $227,000 to $303,000.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- managed databases
- cloud computing
- Kubernetes
- Golang
- Python

### Nice to have
- AI features
- scalable architectures
- automation

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