Staff Software Engineer

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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 www.coreweave.com . What You'll Do: The Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of our Data Infrastructure organization, responsible for the availability, reliability, scalability, and security of the company's data platform. We build and operate the foundational systems that underpin data ingestion, transformation, analytics, and internal AI workloads at scale — delivering with production-grade discipline across mission-critical services. Our work is guided by a commitment to automation, deep observability, and resilience, supporting stringent uptime requirements that the broader organization depends on. About the role: As a Staff Software Engineer, you will take end-to-end ownership of the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform. You will architect and operate highly available, multi-region systems designed to meet rigorous uptime and latency standards. Your day-to-day work will span scaling infrastructure, optimizing deployment pipelines, and strengthening our security posture — while playing a central role in building, testing, and managing scalable systems that are production-ready from day one. Who You Are: You bring 10+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or building highly scalable distributed systems — with a strong foundation in software design, development, and algorithmic problem-solving. Data Platform Experience: Familiarity operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads, including distributed processing and streaming frameworks such as Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or Flink. Kubernetes & Containerization: Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster design, day-to-day operations, and production troubleshooting across containerized service environments. CI/CD Systems: Proven track record building and operating robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions. Production Ownership: Demonstrated experience owning mission-critical systems with high availability requirements (≥99.99% uptime), including incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definition, error budget management, and blameless postmortems. Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience developing large-scale distributed systems, databases, and backend APIs. Multi-Region Architecture: Practical experience designing and operating geo-replicated, active-active, multi-region systems — with a solid grasp of traffic routing, failover strategies, and data consistency tradeoffs. Observability: Strong experience building and owning full-stack observability solutions, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with IaC tooling such as Helm, Terraform, or Pulumi, and experience with automated environment provisioning. Performance & Capacity: Strong command of system performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed environments. Cloud-Native Security: Hands-on experience applying security best practices in cloud-native settings, including secrets management, network policies, and vulnerability scanning. Preferred: Regulated Environments: Experience working within compliance-driven environments and a working knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, or SOX. Internal Developer Platforms: Background in designing and building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling that empowers engineering teams to move faster and operate independently. 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 $207,000 to $275,000. 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