Set clear priorities, roadmaps, ownership, and measures of success.
Define clear decision-making, escalation, and on-call practices as the team grows.
Partner with technical leaders to guide architecture and deliver reliable infrastructure and automation.
Establish strong practices for testing, observability, safe changes, incident response, and on-call.
Use operational and delivery data to identify risks and guide investment.
Resolve cross-team dependencies and create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Who You Are
You have 6+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or production engineering, including people leadership.
You have managed engineers responsible for production systems with meaningful reliability requirements.
You have experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
You have improved operational practices such as on-call, SLOs, observability, incident response, or change management.
You have turned ambiguous ownership or cross-team dependencies into clear plans and delivered outcomes.
You can guide technical tradeoffs and work effectively with senior engineers without becoming the team's sole architect.
You have experience hiring, coaching, managing performance, and communicating priorities and risks to technical teams and senior leaders.
Preferred
Experience building a new engineering team or platform function.
Experience operating Kubernetes at scale or on bare metal.
Familiarity with infrastructure automation, GitOps, and progressive delivery.
Experience leading teams with both development and operational responsibilities.
Wondering if you're a good fit?
We value diverse experiences and do not expect candidates to match every qualification. If you enjoy developing engineers, creating clarity, and building dependable infrastructure organizations, we would love to talk.
Why CoreWeave?
At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:
Be Curious at Your Core
Act Like an Owner
Empower Employees
Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
Achieve More Together
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!
The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000. 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 (all based on eligibility).
What We Offer
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These 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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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.
Export Control Compliance
This position requires access to technology and/or source code subject to U.S. export control laws. Any such access will be provided only in compliance with applicable U.S. export control requirements. As part of the recruitment process, CoreWeave may request limited information reasonably necessary to assess applicable export-control requirements.
