Engineering Manager, Launch & Sandboxes- Weights & Biases

About the role

The Engineering Manager for Launch & Sandboxes will lead the development and delivery of two key product areas: Sandboxes and Launch. Sandboxes provide cloud execution environments for ML practitioners, while Launch handles job launching, compute orchestration, and integration with HPC schedulers. The role involves managing the full product lifecycle, from ideation to delivery, and ensuring reliable and efficient operations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product management to prioritize and shape the roadmap
• Unblock engineers on cross-team dependencies
• Ensure the team delivers reliably while managing technical debt
• Balance product delivery with technical health
• Grow engineers into autonomous leaders and technical decision-makers
• Stay close to ML practitioner usage to drive team priorities
• Make hard prioritization calls, maintain engineering quality, and build autonomous teams

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of shipping infrastructure or platform products
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with backend systems depth
• Technical fluency in Go, Python, and Kubernetes
• Experience managing teams that own distributed systems in production
• Demonstrated ability to balance product delivery with technical health
• Experience partnering with product managers to shape and prioritize a roadmap
• Track record of growing engineers across levels
• Strong communication skills with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, especially in newer product areas

Qualifications

• Experience with ML infrastructure, ML platforms, or developer tools for data scientists
• Familiarity with compute orchestration, job scheduling, or container isolation technologies
• Experience managing teams through a product area transition (e.g., early-stage to growth, or post-acquisition integration)
• Background in HPC or scientific computing environments
• Experience with billing systems, metering, or usage-based pricing infrastructure
• Founding experience or early-stage background where you took a product from idea to the hands of users

Skills

• Technical fluency in Go, Python, and Kubernetes
• Experience managing distributed systems in production
• Ability to balance product delivery with technical health
• Experience partnering with product managers to shape and prioritize a roadmap
• Track record of growing engineers across levels
• Strong communication skills with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, especially in newer product areas

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 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
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

Schedule

CoreWeave offers a flexible schedule to accommodate the diverse needs of our employees.