Senior Engineer I

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. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.

About the role

Telecommuting permitted 100% of the time from anywhere in the U.S. This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicants must be U.S. persons (citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, or asylees), eligible to access the information without an export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale data ingestion, storage, and querying systems supporting AI/ML experiment tracking and analytics.
• Architect and optimize distributed systems and backend services to improve performance, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across petabyte-scale datasets.
• Implement and enhance customer-facing APIs using modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, TypeScript) and storage technologies such as MySQL, Bigtable, ClickHouse, Postgres, and Kafka/PubSub.
• Build, deploy, and operate services on Kubernetes-based infrastructure, using tools such as Terraform and major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues related to distributed systems, data pipelines, and storage/query performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, revenue, and engineering) to define technical requirements, design system architectures, and deliver new platform capabilities.
• Lead long-term architectural initiatives to evolve metrics and storage infrastructure, ensuring secure, reliable, and cost-optimized operation.
• Mentor junior engineers by providing technical guidance, code reviews, design feedback, and best practices for high-quality software development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or related STEM field.
• Five (5) years of experience in the job offered or a related role.
• Five (5) years of experience with:
  • Maintaining and deploying Go and Python code in live software systems.
  • Maintaining and adapting systems that use MySQL and Postgres.
  • Deploying and optimizing distributed systems on cloud platforms, such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
  • Building and maintaining using Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Building, deploying, and developing new features and APIs (REST or gRPC).
  • Maintaining and adapting systems that use Kafka or PubSub.

Pay

Salary: $215,000–$254,000 per year. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 100% paid by CoreWeave.
• Company-paid life insurance.
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA).
• Tuition reimbursement.
• 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 office and data center locations.
• Casual work environment with a culture focused on innovative disruption.

Schedule

Full-time; Monday–Friday (40 hours per week).