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Sr. Engineering Manager, Inference

CoreWeave· Technology
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Bellevue, WA$188k - $303k + equity + bonusfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior leadership role responsible for building and operating CoreWeave's Kubernetes-native inference platform, leading a team of senior and staff engineers to deliver a low-latency, high-throughput inference service.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of senior and staff engineers building and operating CoreWeave's Kubernetes-native inference platform.
  • Own production service end-to-end including availability, latency, capacity, and cost.
  • Define and defend SLIs/SLOs and error budgets; build the operational practice behind them.
  • Manage multi-tenant platform concerns: isolation, quota, noisy-neighbor mitigation, and fair sharing.
  • Grow and promote engineers, including into senior and staff-level roles; run performance calibration and leveling decisions.
  • Build and own hiring bar and interview process for senior engineering roles.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to create clarity in ambiguous or fast-scaling environments.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services
  • 3+ years of engineering management experience, including managing senior and staff-level engineers
  • Track record owning a production service end to end including availability, latency, capacity, and cost
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes at production scale, including orchestration, scheduling, and service design
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, networked services, and performance under load; able to lead architecture and code review without owning the critical path
  • Experience defining and defending SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and building the operational practice behind them
  • Experience with multi-tenant platforms: isolation, quota, noisy-neighbor mitigation, and fair sharing
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to create clarity in ambiguous or fast-scaling environment.
  • Demonstrated track record of growing and promoting engineers, including into senior and staff-level roles
  • Experience running performance calibration and making accurate leveling decisions
  • Experience managing underperformance directly and fairly, as well as retaining top performers
  • Experience building and owning a hiring bar and interview process for senior engineering roles

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsKubernetes at production scaleSLI/SLOs and error budgetsMulti-tenant platform managementHiring and people leadership

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 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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