Staff Software Engineer, Observability

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead our efforts in building, maintaining, and optimizing highly scalable, reliable, and secure systems. The Observability team is responsible for deploying and maintaining critical infrastructure at CoreWeave including our logging, tracing, and metrics platforms as well as the pipelines that feed them.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Scale logging, tracing, and metrics platforms to support a global datacenter footprint.
• Develop and refine monitoring and alerting to enhance system reliability.
• Advise engineers across CoreWeave on optimal usage of Observability systems.
• Automate interactions with CoreWeave’s Compute Infrastructure layer.
• Manage production clusters and ensure development teams follow best practices for deployments.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
• Deep expertise across all observability pillars using tools like ClickHouse, Elastic, Loki, Victoria Metrics, Prometheus, Thanos and/or Grafana.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, containerization, and microservices architectures.
• Proven track record of leading incident management and post-mortem analysis.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience running and scaling observability tools as a cloud provider.
• Experience administering large-scale kubernetes clusters.
• Deep understanding of data-streaming systems.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $250,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

Schedule

Not specified.

Benefits

Our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

• 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

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C.1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.