Staff Software Engineer

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence.

The Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of our Data Infrastructure organization, responsible for the availability, reliability, scalability, and security of the company's data platform. We build and operate the foundational systems that underpin data ingestion, transformation, analytics, and internal AI workloads at scale , delivering with production-grade discipline across mission-critical services.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will take end-to-end ownership of the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform. You will architect and operate highly available, multi-region systems designed to meet rigorous uptime and latency standards. Your day-to-day work will span scaling infrastructure, optimizing deployment pipelines, and strengthening our security posture , while playing a central role in building, testing, and managing scalable systems that are production-ready from day one.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or building highly scalable distributed systems
• Data Platform Experience: Familiarity operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads, including distributed processing and streaming frameworks such as Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or Flink
• Kubernetes & Containerization: Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster design, day-to-day operations, and production troubleshooting across containerized service environments
• CI/CD Systems: Proven track record building and operating robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions
• Production Ownership: Demonstrated experience owning mission-critical systems with high availability requirements (≥99.99% uptime), including incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definition, error budget management, and blameless postmortems
• Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience developing large-scale distributed systems, databases, and backend APIs
• Multi-Region Architecture: Practical experience designing and operating geo-replicated, active-active, multi-region systems , with a solid grasp of traffic routing, failover strategies, and data consistency tradeoffs
• Observability: Strong experience building and owning full-stack observability solutions, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with IaC tooling such as Helm, Terraform, or Pulumi, and experience with automated environment provisioning
• Performance & Capacity: Strong command of system performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed environments
• Cloud-Native Security: Hands-on experience applying security best practices in cloud-native settings, including secrets management, network policies, and vulnerability scanning

Preferred:

• Internal Developer Platforms: Background in designing and building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling that empowers engineering teams to move faster and operate independently

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.

The base salary range for this role is $207,000 to $275,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and 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:

• 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