In this role, you will
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Drive the ongoing transition from monolithic to distributed architecture.
Design and implement architecture to be agentic ready, enabling rapid deployment of AI products and MCP server integrations.
Own technical decisions balancing immediate business needs with long-term architectural goals.
Hands-On Development
Write production-quality Python code for critical platform components.
Build and optimize distributed compute services.
Implement reliable workflow orchestration patterns.
Own CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategy for platform services.
Drive reliability, observability, and SRE practices (monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance and scaling).
Team Mentorship & Collaboration
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, elevating the technical capabilities of the entire team.
Establish engineering best practices and architectural patterns.
Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Guide technical decision-making and prioritization across multiple teams.
Interview and onboard new engineers.
Who You Are
10+ years of software engineering experience, including time in a staff-level engineering role.
Broad software engineering depth spanning deployment and CI/CD, automated testing, and SRE/production reliability (observability, incident response).
Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems end-to-end.
Strong API and service interface design skills for distributed services.
Security-minded development, including authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth) and secure-by-default practices.
Expert-level Python development skills with production experience at scale.
Strong Kubernetes experience with production workloads.
Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow, or similar).
Cloud platform expertise (AWS required, Azure & GCP beneficial).
Experience with data processing frameworks (Spark, Athena, Ray, or similar).
Track record of driving architectural transformations in growing companies.
Excellence in technical communication and stakeholder management.
Wondering if you’re a good fit? 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. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.
Technical Excellence: You write clean, maintainable code and design systems that scale.
Operational Rigor: You care about testing, deployments, and what happens after code ships – reliability, monitoring, and on-call health.
Pragmatic Problem-Solver: You balance perfectionism with shipping, making smart trade-offs between short-term delivery and long-term goals.
Strong Leadership: You proactively identify problems and drive solutions forward.
Mentorship Mindset: You elevate others through knowledge sharing and patient guidance.
Ownership Mentality: You take full responsibility for outcomes and drive initiatives to completion.
Customer Obsession: You understand that our success is measured by our customers’ success.
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 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 (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
California Applicants
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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.
