Senior Storage Engineer, File & Block

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Storage Engineer, File & Block to help build and operate the file and block storage services at the heart of CoreWeave's Storage team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly scalable, multi-tenant file and block storage — from the data path (NFS for file; durable, high-performance block volumes) to the control plane that governs tenancy, provisioning, and data protection — running natively on CoreWeave's storage fleet and delivered through Kubernetes.
• Own the file system data path: NFS hot-path reliability, IO resilience, and performance — including the small-file / IOPS-heavy workloads that AI pipelines depend on, and the throughput that keeps GPUs fed.
• Build a native block storage service: durable, high-performance block volumes for customer workloads and internal stateful services — the third leg of the file/object/block triad, running on our own data path and shared storage hardware.
• Deliver both file and block as first-class Kubernetes citizens: design and ship a backend-neutral CSI driver with dynamic provisioning, resize, snapshots, and RWO block volumes, backed by a public provisioning SLO — reusing shared control-plane and CSI patterns across file and block rather than rebuilding per service.
• Build the control plane: multi-tenant isolation, quota, QoS, snapshots, key management (BYOK), audit, and lifecycle policy — the capabilities that unblock regulated and enterprise customers (e.g., encryption in transit, HIPAA controls).
• Improve the reliability, durability, and observability of the storage stack; partner with operations to monitor, analyze, and optimize using telemetry, metrics, and dashboards to improve performance, latency, and resilience.
• Work cross-functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage across the stack, including tiering cold data to lower-cost object storage while preserving access.
• Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed, high-performance systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6–10 years building storage systems, distributed systems, or infrastructure services.
• Strong hands-on experience with distributed or networked file systems and/or block storage in production — e.g., NFS/POSIX file semantics at scale, and/or block volume services (durability, snapshots, replication).
• Depth in the storage data path: IO performance, caching, small-file and metadata-heavy workloads, crash consistency, and resilience under load.
• Experience with multi-tenant services or storage control planes — provisioning, tenancy/quota, and data-protection features (snapshots, encryption, key management).
• Proficiency in a systems/back-end language — Go strongly preferred (C or Rust a plus).
• Experience building on Kubernetes — controllers/operators, CRDs, and CSI (dynamic provisioning, resize, snapshots, RWO volumes).
• Familiarity with distributed databases (e.g., CockroachDB), workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal), and gRPC/Protobuf service design.
• Ideal experience with distributed or parallel storage stacks such as Ceph/RBD, Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS, WEKA, VAST, or DAOS.
• Familiarity with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines (e.g., ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana).

Qualifications

• Experience with high-performance data-path technologies (RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, SPDK).
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed, high-performance environments.
• Clear communicator, able to work collaboratively across teams and share technical insights effectively.

Skills

• Systems/back-end language proficiency (Go strongly preferred, C or Rust a plus).
• Experience with Kubernetes (controllers/operators, CRDs, CSI).
• Familiarity with distributed databases (e.g., CockroachDB), workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal), and gRPC/Protobuf service design.
• Experience with distributed or parallel storage stacks (e.g., Ceph/RBD, Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS, WEKA, VAST, DAOS).
• Experience with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines (e.g., ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Experience with high-performance data-path technologies (RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, SPDK).

Benefits

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. 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).

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. 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).

Schedule

Our team works flexible hours to accommodate the needs of our diverse workforce. We believe in a healthy work-life balance and offer a variety of benefits to support your needs.

Qualifications

• California Applicants: California Consumer Privacy Act
• Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
• Export Control Compliance