Senior Platform Engineer, Metal Dev

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 About The Role CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Platform Engineer to join our Hardware Engineering Dev team (Metal Dev). Reporting to the Engineering Manager for Hardware Engineering Dev, you will play a crucial part in the development, deployment, and monitoring of services that manage our bare-metal infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of highly performant and reliable infrastructure solutions. Key Responsibilities Incident Management & Support: Lead incident response efforts by identifying and resolving service disruptions quickly, while coaching other junior team members through resolution. Lead the documentation of incidents, conduct in-depth root cause analysis (RCA), and drive post-incident reviews (PIRs) to identify systemic issues. Implement long term improvements that would prevent service degradation. Own the development and continuous improvement of incident response playbooks ensuring preparedness for a wide range of failure scenarios. Clearly communicate efforts during incidents to the management, stakeholders and the cross functional teams, during an incident. Keep clear records of incident activities. Master clear understanding of various services on how they work in production as well as build through knowledge of the internals of these services and how they interact with the entire stack. Operational Support & Reliability: Build a strategy around making our core services perform at its best at scale. This includes improvements to the services for robustness as well as supportability in production. Own system observability and health leveraging tools like Prometheus and Grafana, to proactively detect performance bottlenecks and prevent incidents. Lead automation efforts to streamline incident detection and recovery, minimizing manual intervention. Define and drive KPIs and SLAs for incident management and ensuring alignment with the organizational reliability objectives. Collaborate with engineers across teams to improve platform reliability, resilience improvements, and disaster recovery. Collaborate with upstream communities, including Go and Redfish-based services. Design and implement solutions to build operational efficiency and stability. Document hardware automation workflows and processes. Create CI/CD pipelines. Ensure smooth operation of all aspects of the server hardware lifecycle, from provisioning to end-of-life, by troubleshooting bugs, automating common tasks, and documenting processes. Partner with the Fleet Operations Team to design scalable tooling and processes that enables self-service and reduction in escalation overhead. Build out dashboards and alerts to make efficient operational troubleshooting. Participate in on-call rotation. Minimum Qualifications 7+ years of experience in cloud operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), or related technical roles. Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, GCP) and basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure. Familiarity with incident management practices and frameworks (e.g., ITIL, SRE best practices). Proficiency with Go. Prior experience with Prometheus / Grafana. Previous experience deploying containerized applications using Kubernetes. Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail. Strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities. Served on an on-call rotation supporting production services. Compensation The base pay for this position ranges from $153,000 to $242,000. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position includes a discretionary bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package. 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 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. California Consumer Privacy Act – California applicants only. Equal Opportunity 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 click.appcast.io. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr CoreWeave