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Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) – AI Workload Orchestration

CoreWeave· Technology
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA)$182k - $242kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) on the AI Workload Orchestration Platform team building and operating a Kubernetes-native platform for admitting, scheduling, and operating AI workloads at scale. Integrates Kueue, Volcano, Ray, and complements SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes). Owns platform components, improves reliability and performance, and scales with demand.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native services for AI workload orchestration and scheduling
  • Own one or more platform components end-to-end, including design, implementation, testing, and on-call support
  • Improve scheduling latency, cluster utilization, and workload reliability through metrics-driven engineering
  • Contribute to architectural discussions across services and influence design decisions within the platform
  • Work closely with adjacent teams (CKS, infrastructure, managed inference) to ensure clean interfaces and integrations
  • Mentor junior engineers and raise the quality bar for code, design, and operations

Qualifications

  • 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering
  • Strong experience building production systems in Go (Python or C++ a plus)
  • Solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, APIs, controllers, and operating services in production
  • Experience working with scheduling, resource management, or quota-based systems
  • Proven ability to improve system reliability and performance using data and operational metrics
  • Comfortable owning services in production and participating in on-call rotations
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.

Skills

Required:Go programmingKubernetesDistributed systems

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
  • Participation 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
  • Casual work environment
  • Culture focused on innovative disruption
Last updated Sep 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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