Engineering Manager, Observability
About the Role
CoreWeave is seeking a Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. In this role, you will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure. You will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility. This role combines technical leadership, operational ownership, and team management to ensure observability platforms scale with business and customer needs.
Who You Are
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale
- 2+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads
- Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, or alerting in distributed systems
- Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design
- Experience scaling telemetry systems including storage backends, and query layers
- Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and cost
- Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption
- Experience hiring and managing engineering teams
Preferred Experience
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing tools
- Experience operating cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments
- Experience supporting large-scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure
- Familiarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systems
- Experience scaling platforms in high-growth environments
Pay
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).
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