Senior Counsel, Cyber Security and Incident Response

Job Description

Job Description

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 

The Legal and Government Affairs team at CoreWeave is highly collaborative and partners closely with teams across the company to navigate complex legal landscapes while enabling innovation and growth. The team is pragmatic, solutions-oriented, and deeply engaged in strategic decision-making, with a strong emphasis on building trusted relationships across the organization.

As Senior Counsel, Cybersecurity & Incident Response, you will serve as a key legal partner to Security and other cross-functional teams on cybersecurity preparedness, incident response, and related regulatory compliance. If you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, enjoy solving complex problems, and are eager to make a significant impact, CoreWeave is the place for you.

Reporting to the Senior Director & Lead Managing Counsel, Privacy, Regulatory & Compliance, you will provide practical, real-time advice during complex security events, help preserve legal privilege, assess legal and contractual notification obligations, and guide matters from initial investigation through remediation and post-incident review. You will also help strengthen incident response governance, playbooks, and exercises in a rapidly scaling, global cloud infrastructure environment.

In this role, you will:

• Provide timely, practical legal advice throughout the cybersecurity incident lifecycle, including triage, investigation, containment, remediation, recovery, and post-incident review.
• Partner closely with Security, Privacy, IT, Engineering, Product, Communications, Customer Support, Insurance, and business leaders to coordinate legally sound incident response and decision-making.
• Direct or support privileged investigations, including engagement of outside counsel and forensic firms, evidence preservation, root-cause analysis, documentation, and interactions with law enforcement.
• Assess notification and disclosure obligations under applicable cybersecurity, privacy, data breach, securities, and sector-specific laws, as well as customer, vendor, insurance, and other contractual requirements.
• Draft and review executive and Board updates, customer and regulatory notices, law-enforcement communications, and other incident-related communications for accuracy, consistency, and legal risk.
• Advise on cybersecurity laws, regulations, regulatory inquiries, and enforcement trends affecting cloud infrastructure and technology companies, and translate requirements into scalable controls and processes.
• Develop and maintain incident response plans, legal playbooks, notification matrices, escalation criteria, decision records, and training; design and participate in tabletop exercises and drive legal follow-up actions.

Who You Are:

• 4+ years of relevant legal experience, including meaningful experience advising on cybersecurity incidents, data breaches, digital investigations, or cybersecurity regulatory matters; a mix of law firm and in-house experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage complex and sensitive cybersecurity matters and provide clear advice in fast-moving, high-pressure situations with incomplete facts.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. federal and state breach notification requirements, cybersecurity regulatory frameworks, and contractual incident notification obligations; familiarity with international requirements is a plus.
• Experience assessing incident materiality, escalation, notification, and disclosure issues and documenting defensible legal decisions.
• Experience conducting privileged investigations and working with cybersecurity professionals, forensic investigators, outside counsel, regulators, and law enforcement.
• Ability to understand technical facts, ask precise questions, and translate forensic findings, system architecture, logs, and security concepts into actionable legal guidance.
• Excellent drafting and communication skills, including experience preparing concise executive updates and accurate customer, regulator, and public-facing communications.
• Strong judgment, discretion, and composure, with the ability to prioritize competing demands and support significant incidents outside standard business hours when necessary.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and work cross-functionally with technical, operational, communications, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
• J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (NY, NJ, CA, DC, or WA preferred).

• Experience advising a high-growth cloud, SaaS, data center, infrastructure, or other technology company.
• Experience with public-company cybersecurity materiality, governance, and disclosure processes.
• Experience advising on ransomware, insider threats, supply-chain incidents, credential compromise, and cloud security events.
• Experience developing and testing incident response plans, legal playbooks, and tabletop exercises.
• Privacy or cybersecurity credentials such as CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, CISSP, or comparable training.

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 remain calm under pressure and can make sound, defensible decisions when facts are still developing.
• You're curious about technology and enjoy working closely with security and engineering teams to understand how systems operate.
• You communicate complex legal risk clearly and concisely, with a practical focus on protecting customers and enabling the business.

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. Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $157,000 to $245,000. 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

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• 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

California Applicants

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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.

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: View email address on ziprecruiter.com.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to technology and/or source code subject to U.S. export control laws. Any such access will be provided only in compliance with applicable U.S. export control requirements. As part of the recruitment process, CoreWeave may request limited information reasonably necessary to assess applicable export-control requirements.