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Principal Engineer, Cluster Orchestration

CoreWeave· Technology
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Hybrid (Bellevue, WA), Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA)$206k - $303kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Lead the design and evolution of cluster orchestration systems (Slurm, Kubernetes, SUNK, and related control planes) to support AI training, inference, and model onboarding at scale. Define long-term architecture, solve scaling challenges, and set technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define the long-term architecture for CoreWeave’s orchestration platforms across Kubernetes, Slurm, SUNK, Kueue, and related systems.
  • Act as a technical authority on scheduling, quota enforcement, fairness, pre-emption, and multi-tenant GPU isolation.
  • Make design decisions that balance performance, reliability, cost, and operational complexity.
  • Lead the evolution of Kubernetes-native control planes, including SUNK and custom operators.
  • Design systems that support workload admission, validation, and rollout, including model onboarding flows.
  • Identify and remove scaling limits across schedulers, control planes, registries, networking, and storage.
  • Set standards for reliability, observability, and operational readiness across orchestration services.
  • Define SLOs, alerting, and incident response practices for platform-critical systems.
  • Ensure systems behave predictably during failures, peak load, and rapid growth.
  • Write and review production code for Kubernetes controllers, schedulers, admission logic, and internal tooling.
  • Measure and improve scheduling latency, container startup time, image distribution, and cold-start performance.
  • Lead architecture and design reviews across infrastructure teams.
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers and help grow technical leaders.
  • Influence platform, infrastructure, security, and product teams through clear technical judgment.
  • Engage with customers and open-source communities on deep technical topics when needed.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Deep, practical knowledge of Kubernetes and Slurm internals.
  • Experience running GPU-heavy platforms for AI training, inference, or HPC workloads.
  • Strong background in Go and cloud-native systems development.
  • Proven ability to set technical direction across teams without direct authority.
  • Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in complex systems.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:KubernetesSlurmGoScheduling

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Aug 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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