Senior Engineer, Prime Systems & Services

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

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.

• 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 Go Python or a comparable language.
• 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.

• 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.

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 $182000 to $242000. 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 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 weve 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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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.