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Staff Software Engineer - Physical AI

CoreWeave· Monolith T&I
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Londonfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role focused on architectural evolution and hands-on development to scale CoreWeave's platform for distributed architectures, agentic AI applications, and Physical AI workflows. Leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with product and business stakeholders to deliver a distributed, reliable, scalable platform.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the ongoing transition from monolithic to distributed architecture.
  • Design and implement architecture to be agentic ready, enabling rapid deployment of AI products and MCP server integrations.
  • Own technical decisions balancing immediate business needs with long-term architectural goals.
  • Write production-quality Python code for critical platform components.
  • Build and optimize distributed compute services.
  • Implement reliable workflow orchestration patterns.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment strategy for platform services.
  • Drive reliability, observability, and SRE practices (monitoring, alerting, incident response, performance and scaling).
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, elevating the technical capabilities of the entire team.
  • Establish engineering best practices and architectural patterns.
  • Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Guide technical decision-making and prioritization across multiple teams.
  • Interview and onboard new engineers.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience, including time in a staff-level engineering role.
  • Broad software engineering depth spanning deployment and CI/CD, automated testing, and SRE/production reliability (observability, incident response).
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating large-scale distributed backend systems end-to-end.
  • Strong API and service interface design skills for distributed services.
  • Security-minded development, including authentication/authorization (e.g., OAuth) and secure-by-default practices.
  • Expert-level Python development skills with production experience at scale.
  • Strong Kubernetes experience with production workloads.
  • Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (Temporal, Airflow, Kubeflow, or similar).
  • Cloud platform expertise (AWS required, Azure & GCP beneficial).
  • Experience with data processing frameworks (Spark, Athena, Ray, or similar).
  • Track record of driving architectural transformations in growing companies.
  • Excellence in technical communication and stakeholder management.

Skills

Required:PythonDistributed SystemsKubernetesCI/CDWorkflow OrchestrationSecurity & AuthenticationCloud Platforms

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 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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