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. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
What You’ll Do:
The Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team in the Data Infrastructure organization is responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of the company’s data platform. The team builds and operates the foundational systems that power data ingestion, transformation, analytics, and internal AI workloads at scale. We operate with production-grade discipline, supporting mission-critical services with stringent uptime requirements and a focus on automation, observability, and resilience.
About the role:
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform. You will design and operate highly available, multi-region systems, ensuring our services meet strict uptime and latency targets. Day-to-day, you’ll work on scaling infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, and hardening our security posture. You’ll play a key role in evolving our DevSecOps practices while partnering closely with engineering teams to ensure services are built for reliability from day one.
**Who You Are: **
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerized software services, including cluster design, operations, and troubleshooting in production environments
- Strong experience building and operating CI/CD systems, including tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions
- Proven experience owning production systems with high availability requirements (≥99.99% uptime), including incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and postmortems
- Hands-on experience designing and operating geo-replicated, multi-region, active-active systems, including traffic routing, failover strategies, and data consistency tradeoffs
- Strong experience building and owning observability components, including metrics, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Helm, Terraform, Pulumi) and automated environment provisioning
- Strong understanding of system performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed systems
- Experience implementing and operating security best practices in cloud-native environments (e.g., secrets management, network policies, vulnerability scanning)
Preferred:
- Experience operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads (e.g., Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink)
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
- Experience working in regulated environments with compliance frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, or SOX
- Background in building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure
**Wondering if you’re a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk. **
- You love building highly reliable systems that operate at scale
- You’re curious about how to continuously improve system resilience, security, and operations
- You’re an expert in diagnosing and solving complex distributed systems problems
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, 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 provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take off, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!
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).
What We Offer
The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
- 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
Our Workplace
While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.
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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.
As part of this commitment and consistent with the _Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)_, CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.
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.