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Senior Manager, Managed Databases

CoreWeave· Technology
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Hybrid (Sunnyvale, CA), Hybrid (Bellevue, WA)$207k - $275k + equity + bonusFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior engineering manager role leading the Data Service Team focused on managed databases, data ingestion, data flow, data lake, and analytics infrastructure for CoreWeave and its customers. Responsible for building and guiding a world-class data services engineering organization, delivering API-driven managed data solutions, and ensuring performance, security, and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Build a world class engineering team by hiring and developing the best talent in the industry.
  • Solve hard system level problems to run demanding AI workloads.
  • Design and implement services to deliver data to teams with a focus on providing managed solutions through APIs
  • Improve the performance, security, reliability, and scalability of our data services.
  • Establish guidelines, guard rails for data access and storage for stakeholder teams.
  • Ensure compliance with standards for data protection regulation.
  • Analyze telemetry and system data to drive improvements in throughput, latency, and resilience.
  • Work cross-functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities across the stack.
  • Grow, change, invest in your teammates, be invested-in, share your ideas, listen to others, be curious, have fun, and, above all, be yourself.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience managing or leading data service infra teams; 5+ years of hands-on software or infrastructure engineering.
  • Understanding one of the database internals: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora, CockroachDB, TiDB, MongoDB, CosmosDB, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, SAP.
  • Hands-on background with cloud native and separating compute from storage architecture.
  • Expert on life of a query and life of a transaction.
  • Experience operating services in production and at scale; reliability engineering concepts (testing, progressive deployments, error budgets, observability, fault-tolerant design).
  • Understanding CAP theorem and concurrency models; can define data models and establish data management guidelines.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes and interest in using it for event-driven/stateful orchestration.
  • Ability to decompose problems into elastic, achievable tasks and socialize them.
  • Excellent communication skills across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
  • Proven ability to attract, retain, and grow world-class engineering talent.

Skills

Required:People management / team leadershipDatabase internalsCloud-native architectureObservability / reliability engineering
Nice to have:Kubernetes

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 office and data center locations
  • A casual work environment
  • A work culture focused on innovative disruption
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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