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CoreWeave · 2 weeks ago

Software Engineer, Kubernetes

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$120K/yr - $176K/yr

3+ years exp

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™, delivering a platform of technology and tools for innovators. In this role, you will ensure the availability and reliability of Kubernetes environments while driving operational excellence and automation.

AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureInformation TechnologyMachine Learning

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Build, operate, and scale Kubernetes-based production infrastructure that delivers CoreWeave’s products with high reliability and performance

Develop automation, tooling, and infrastructure as code in Go and other infrastructure-focused languages to enable zero-touch operations, rapid recovery, and seamless deployments

Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions—leveraging the Grafana ecosystem and related tools—to proactively identify and resolve production issues

Drive incident response efforts, participate in on-call rotations, and lead root cause analysis to prevent recurrence and improve incident handling processes

Partner with internal and cross-functional teams to ensure platform capabilities meet rigorous operational requirements and customer SLAs

Engineer for resiliency, implementing best practices for redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery across complex distributed systems

Advocate for security, reliability, and performance improvements throughout the stack, continuously seeking opportunities to strengthen operational standards

Contribute to the development of custom Kubernetes operators and intelligent orchestration frameworks that optimize AI workload performance and resource utilization at scale

Qualification

Kubernetes administrationInfrastructure as codeMonitoringGo programmingObservabilityIncident managementLinux systemsAnalytical skillsContinuous improvementCommunication skillsTeam collaboration

Required

3+ years of experience in production engineering, SRE, or large-scale infrastructure/platform roles

Knowledgeable in Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and microservices architectures, with a bias for automating every aspect of operations

Proven track record managing high-uptime, customer-facing systems in a fast-moving environment, with experience delivering measurable improvements in reliability and performance

Experience in monitoring, observability, and incident management using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Loki, or VictoriaMetrics

Knowledge in infrastructure-focused programming—especially in Go and Bash—and hold a deep understanding of Linux systems

Excel at troubleshooting complex production issues, from system failures to performance bottlenecks, and approach problems methodically with strong analytical skills

Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders, proactively sharing knowledge and advocating for operational best practices

Passionate about building systems that are not just functional, but robust, self-healing, and easy to operate at scale

Take pride in driving continuous improvement, and helping set high standards for operational excellence and team culture