Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure Services

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

The Data Platforms Team serves as the experts on data ingestion, data flow, and retrieval for CoreWeave. This team is responsible for the development of use cases, discovery of innovative solutions, automation, and operations of our data platform infrastructure.

We are seeking a Staff Engineer with specialization in Data Platforms and Stream Processing to help fulfill our multi-regional datastore strategy and establish communication models for our data flow. This individual will work with a team of 6-8 mixed-skill engineers and have the opportunity to tackle a full range of rewarding challenges in a communicative, supportive, and high-performing environment.

As a member of the Data Platforms Team, you will drive technical decision-making to accelerate delivery, mentor engineers, and grow team capability.

Responsibilities

• Champion event-driven architecture adoption and build consensus across the organization.
• Identify and develop applications for the organization's data by understanding business needs and creating solutions that leverage data effectively.
• Design and implement the platform to deliver data to teams with a focus on providing managed solutions.
• Develop a stream processing architecture and solve for scalability and reliability.
• Improve the performance, security, reliability, and scalability of our data platforms and related services, and participate in the team’s on-call rotation.
• Establish guidelines and guardrails for data access and storage for stakeholder teams.
• Ensure compliance with standards for data protection regulation.
• Grow, invest in, and support your teammates; share ideas, listen to others, be curious, and have fun.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
• Understanding of data consistency and concurrency models; ability to clearly define data models and establish guidelines around data management.
• Familiarity with distributed NewSQL datastores such as CockroachDB, TiDB, YDB, Yugabyte, and/or stream processing tools such as NATS or Kafka.
• Experience designing and operating these systems at scale.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and interest or experience using it for event-driven and/or stateful orchestration.
• Excited to contribute to a Kubernetes operator to manage data systems.
• Proficiency with Linux distros, shell scripting, and the Linux storage and networking stacks.
• Ability to transform problems into elastic solutions, decompose them into achievable tasks, and socialize both to teammates.
• Production-level proficiency in Go or Python and interest in contributing to open source.

Why 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, 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

Pay

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. 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
• 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