Senior Software Engineer, Data Center Infrastructure Tooling

About the role

The CoreWeave team is seeking a senior backend engineer to design, build, and own the data layer, APIs, and services that power our new tooling for managing massive amounts of infrastructure across hundreds of sites. This role involves building bespoke software to model our infrastructure at both a physical and logical level to drive planning, coordination, automation, of some of the most advanced AI datacenters.

Responsibilities

• Data models and APIs that capture the complexity of datacenter infrastructure: devices, connectivity, cabling, power, cooling, and spatial relationships across racks, rows, and floors.
• High-throughput API services in Go (gRPC, GraphQL, and/or REST) that support the data density and interaction speed the frontend demands, including complex filtering, aggregation, and bulk operations across large datasets.
• Backend architecture from the ground up: service structure, data access patterns, caching strategy, and API contracts designed to scale with the team and product scope.
• Integrations with internal/external systems and data sources that feed infrastructure planning, ensuring the platform reflects real-world state and planned builds accurately.
• Deployment and operational infrastructure for the services you build, including Kubernetes manifests, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and reliability practices.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Go.
• Deep experience with relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL and CockroachDB.
• Experience designing and building APIs (gRPC, GraphQL, and REST).
• Performance optimization on the backend.
• Experience with CockroachDB specifically.
• Experience building systems that handle complex graph-like or hierarchical relational data.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, Terraform, or GitOps workflows.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, change data capture, or audit logging for compliance-sensitive systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with meaningful senior-level ownership of production systems and the data layers behind them.

Skills

• Genuine curiosity about (or direct experience with) physical datacenter infrastructure.
• Strong data modeling instincts.
• Ability to work directly with infrastructure engineers.
• Strong communication skills.
• Strong sense of ownership for the systems you build and the people who depend on them.

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

Full-time, remote position.