← All roles

Software Engineer, Kubernetes

CoreWeave· Technology
Apply on company site
Hybrid (Livingston, NJ), Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA), Hybrid (Bellevue, WA)$153k - $204kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Role focused on building and operating a large Kubernetes environment with emphasis on reliability, automation, observability, and performance for CoreWeave’s cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Build, operate, and scale Kubernetes-based production infrastructure that delivers CoreWeave’s products with high reliability and performance.
  • Develop automation, tooling, and infrastructure as code in Go and other infrastructure-focused languages to enable zero-touch operations, rapid recovery, and seamless deployments.
  • Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions—leveraging the Grafana ecosystem and related tools—to proactively identify and resolve production issues.
  • Drive incident response efforts, participate in on-call rotations, and lead root cause analysis to prevent recurrence and improve incident handling processes.
  • Partner with internal and cross-functional teams to ensure platform capabilities meet rigorous operational requirements and customer SLAs.
  • Engineer for resiliency, implementing best practices for redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery across complex distributed systems.
  • Advocate for security, reliability, and performance improvements throughout the stack, continuously seeking opportunities to strengthen operational standards.
  • Contribute to the development of custom Kubernetes operators and intelligent orchestration frameworks that optimize AI workload performance and resource utilization at scale.

Qualifications

  • Bring 3+ years of experience in production engineering, SRE, or large-scale infrastructure/platform roles.
  • Knowledgeable in Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and microservices architectures, with a bias for automating every aspect of operations.
  • Proven track record managing high-uptime, customer-facing systems in a fast-moving environment, with experience delivering measurable improvements in reliability and performance.
  • Experience in monitoring, observability, and incident management using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Loki, or VictoriaMetrics.
  • Knowledge in infrastructure-focused programming—especially in Go and Bash—and deep understanding of Linux systems.
  • Excellent troubleshooting of complex production issues with strong analytical skills.
  • Clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders, proactive knowledge sharing and advocating for operational best practices.
  • Passion for building robust, self-healing systems that scale, with a focus on continuous improvement and high operational standards.

Skills

Required:Kubernetes administrationGoBashLinuxMonitoring/Observability

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.

About CoreWeave

The Essential Cloud for AI

CoreWeave is the force multiplier that empowers pioneers with momentum, magnitude, and mastery—enabling them to innovate with confidence. Explore the #1 AI Cloud.

AI CloudCluster ManagementGPU computeManaged ServicesNetworkingPlatformStorageliquid-ai-recruiting-target
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at CoreWeave