Sr. Engineering Manager, Inference

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

As a Sr. Engineering Manager for the Inference team, you will lead a team of senior and staff engineers building and operating CoreWeave's Kubernetes-native inference platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of senior and staff engineers in building and operating a large-scale, Kubernetes-native inference platform.
• Own a production service end-to-end, including availability, latency, capacity, and cost.
• Define and defend SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and build the operational practice behind them.
• Manage multi-tenant platforms with a focus on isolation, quota, noisy-neighbor mitigation, and fair sharing.
• Create clarity in ambiguous or fast-scaling environments through excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Grow and promote engineers, including into senior and staff-level roles.
• Run performance calibration and make accurate leveling decisions.
• Manage underperformance directly and fairly, while retaining top performers.
• Build and own a hiring bar and interview process for senior engineering roles.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services.
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including managing senior and staff-level engineers.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes at production scale, including orchestration, scheduling, and service design.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networked services, and performance under load; able to lead architecture and code review without owning the critical path.
• Experience with multi-tenant platforms: isolation, quota, noisy-neighbor mitigation, and fair sharing.
• Experience operating low-latency, high-throughput request-serving systems against strict P95/P99 targets.
• Working knowledge of autoscaling, load balancing, admission control, and traffic management at scale.
• Experience with capacity planning and demand forecasting for constrained or expensive resources.
• Familiarity with GPU-backed workloads and the scheduling and utilization trade-offs they introduce.
• Progressive delivery practices: canarying, feature gating, safe rollback for always-on services.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating a customer-facing cloud service or developer platform, including API and control-plane design.
• Familiarity with inference-serving stacks such as vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, or TorchServe.
• Experience operating multi-region fleets at a cloud provider or hyperscaler.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience scaling teams, tooling, and processes in a high-growth environment.

About CoreWeave

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $303,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. 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