Senior Manager, Production Engineering

About the role

We're scaling the CoreWeave Cloud Platform and need a Senior Manager of Production Engineering to lead our SRE team and practices. This role involves contributing to the SRE vision, strategy, and roadmap, leading a team, establishing best practices, and collaborating with various teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute and execute the SRE vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large-scale, distributed cloud infrastructure.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of SREs, promoting a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Champion automation-first practices, leveraging AI, tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code to minimize toil and manual interventions.
• Establish and evolve Operational Excellence best practices ensuring the platform is proactive and propagates organizational learning.
• Drive initiatives for incident management, postmortem culture, root cause analysis, and system hardening.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer support teams to build scalable, resilient, and self-healing systems.
• Evolve our on-call strategy and processes to support a 24x7, globally distributed platform with minimal disruptions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• 10+ years in a leadership or senior management role at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or high-growth tech company.
• Experience hiring, developing, and managing geographically distributed 24x7 engineering teams.
• Experience in designing and implementing incident management processes including on-call rotations, escalation paths, postmortems, and SLO/SLA framework.
• Strong foundation in systems engineering, with a deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and storage architecture.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence product, platform, hardware, and security teams.

Qualifications

• Experience building platform tooling and internal developer portals to improve engineering velocity and operational visibility.
• Familiarity with GPU-accelerated workloads, including resource isolation, scheduling, and performance tuning.
• Experience working in AI infrastructure environments supporting training or inference at scale.
• Experience in compliance, reliability risk modeling, or operational maturity assessments (e.g., RTO/RPO, chaos engineering).
• Prior leadership experience in bare metal infrastructure environments (e.g., custom data centers, edge compute, HPC clusters).
• Working knowledge of DPUs, service mesh architectures, and multi-tenant security models.

Benefits

• The base salary range for this role is $207,000 to $275,000.
• The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.
• We offer a variety of benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 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 California Consumer Privacy Act, Equal Opportunity & Accommodations, CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace, Export Control Compliance, This position requires access to export controlled information.