Senior Engineer I
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.
Location: 290 W Mt Pleasant Ave, Suite 4100, Livingston, NJ 07039. Telecommuting permitted 100% of the time from anywhere in the U.S.
Work Schedule: Full time, Monday – Friday (40 hours per week).
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain large-scale data ingestion, storage, and querying systems supporting AI/ML experiment tracking and analytics.
- Architect and optimize distributed systems and backend services to improve performance, reliability, scalability and cost‑efficiency across petabyte‑scale datasets.
- Implement and enhance customer‑facing APIs using modern programming languages (Go, Python, TypeScript) and storage technologies such as MySQL, Bigtable, ClickHouse, Postgres and Kafka/PubSub.
- Build, deploy, and operate services on Kubernetes‑based infrastructure using tools such as Terraform and major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues related to distributed systems, data pipelines, and storage/query performance.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (product, revenue, and engineering) to define technical requirements, design system architectures, and deliver new platform capabilities.
- Lead long‑term architectural initiatives to evolve metrics and storage infrastructure, ensuring secure, reliable and cost‑optimized operation.
- Mentor junior engineers by providing technical guidance, code reviews, design feedback and best practices for high‑quality software development.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering or related STEM fields.
- At least five (5) years of experience in a related role.
- Five (5) years of experience with Go and Python in live software systems.
- Experience maintaining and adapting systems that use MySQL, Postgres, Kafka or PubSub.
- Experience building and maintaining distributed systems on cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure).
- Experience deploying and optimizing against Kubernetes and Docker.
- Experience building, deploying, and developing new features and APIs (REST or gRPC).
Compensation
Salary range: $215,000 – $254,000 per year. The starting salary will be determined based on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition to base salary, total rewards include discretionary bonus, equity awards and a comprehensive benefits program.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision insurance – 100% paid by CoreWeave.
- Company‑paid Life Insurance.
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance.
- Short‑term and long‑term disability insurance.
- Flexible Spending Account.
- Health Savings Account.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
- Mental wellness benefits through Spring Health.
- Family‑forming support provided by Carrot.
- Paid parental leave.
- 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.
Legal and Compliance Statements
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. CoreWeave will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities, unless such accommodations would cause 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, applicants must either be (A) a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee or asylee), or (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.