Staff Software Engineer
Company: CoreWeave
Location: Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco, CA / Bellevue, WA
Salary: $207k - $275k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-07-25
About this role
- 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
- 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- Cloud-Native Security: Hands-on experience applying security best practices in cloud-native settings, including secrets management, network policies, and vulnerability scanning
- Observability: Strong experience building and owning full-stack observability solutions, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Performance & Capacity: Strong command of system performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed environments
- 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
- Multi-Region Architecture: Practical experience designing and operating geo-replicated, active-active, multi-region sy...