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Senior Software Engineer, IAM

CoreWeave· Technology
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Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA), Hybrid (Bellevue, WA)$165k - $242k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer on the IAM team building and maintaining CoreWeave’s IAM platform, designing high-scale distributed systems, APIs, and backend services, with emphasis on security, reliability, and observability.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build high-scale, low-latency distributed systems that power CoreWeave’s identity, authentication and authorization services
  • Design and implement customer-facing and internal APIs and backend services that underpin our IAM platform
  • Optimize system performance to ensure services remain highly available and performant under unpredictable load patterns
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across the business, including product managers, designers and TPMs, to shape the team’s strategy and roadmap
  • Drive operational excellence by participating in on-call rotations and building automated tooling for monitoring, alerting, and incident response
  • Demonstrate and shape best-practices in software engineering by embracing AI for development, insisting on maintainable and testable code, and participating in thorough code reviews
  • Work with incredible people in a supportive, iterative, high-trust, agile environment

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of professional experience developing, operating and maintaining backend services in a production environment
  • Strong proficiency developing software in one or more of our preferred languages (Go, TypeScript, Python)
  • Knowledge of microservices architecture, RESTful/gRPC API design, and asynchronous messaging patterns
  • Fluency with best practices in observability (logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting)
  • Solid understanding of relational databases, schema design, and SQL
  • Strong commitment to automated testing (unit, integration, and E2E) and CI/CD pipelines
  • Demonstrated ownership of code quality, performance, and maintainability from development through production
  • Experience with authentication, authorization and security best practices
  • Proven track record debugging complex performance bottlenecks and distributed system failures in production
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Skills

Required:GoTypeScriptPythonDistributed systemsObservabilitySecurity best practices

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
  • 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 Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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