Senior Engineer, Prime Systems & Services

Job Description

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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 You'll Do

Prime Systems & Services builds and operates foundational Kubernetes infrastructure and shared services used across CoreWeave's cloud. We are a new team focused on making these systems reliable at cloud scale through strong engineering, durable automation, and clear ownership.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Engineer to design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure and shared services. This is a hands-on role spanning software, systems, and reliability engineering. You will own work from design through production operation, improve how infrastructure is deployed and maintained, and participate in on-call for the systems you build.

This position may be hired at Senior Engineer I or Senior Engineer II; this will be determined during the interview process based on problem complexity, independence, technical leadership, and breadth of impact. At Senior Engineer II, expectations include setting technical direction for ambiguous problems and leading the architecture and long-term evolution of foundational systems.

In this role, you will:

• Own Kubernetes infrastructure and services across their full lifecycle, including provisioning, upgrades, fleet-scale change, and failure recovery.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, upgrades, maintenance, and recovery workflows.
• Improve testing, observability, delivery safety, and operational readiness.
• Hardware procurement, supply chain alignment, and expansion + buildout management.
• Troubleshoot complex production failures and turn what you learn into durable fixes.
• Define service health measures and drive reliability improvements using operational data.
• Reduce recurring toil through software, automation, and self-service capabilities.
• Review technical work, document important decisions, and mentor other engineers.
• Work across engineering teams to solve shared infrastructure problems.

Who You Are

• You have 5+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or production engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• You have operated production Kubernetes clusters or Kubernetes-based platforms at scale.
• You have strong Linux and systems fundamentals and can troubleshoot across networking, storage, containers, and distributed services.
• You can build production-quality software and automation in Golang.
• You have experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or GitOps tools.
• You understand observability, SLOs, incident response, fault-tolerant design, and safe production changes.
• You can independently take an ambiguous problem from discovery through implementation and sustained operation.
• You communicate technical tradeoffs clearly and collaborate effectively across team boundaries.

Preferred

• Experience operating Kubernetes on bare metal or managing large fleets of clusters.
• Experience with Kubernetes controllers, operators, APIs, or platform services.
• Experience building automated testing and progressive delivery for infrastructure.
• Experience leading cross-team technical work or mentoring engineers.

Wondering if You're a Good Fit?

We value diverse experiences and do not expect candidates to match every qualification. If you enjoy building dependable infrastructure, automating repetitive work, and owning systems in production, we would love to talk.

The base salary range for this role is $182,000 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. 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

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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:

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. xhyhwjd CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.