CoreWeave is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead its growing data engineering function, responsible for building and maintaining the company's petabyte-scale enterprise data lake, to enable teams across Finance, HR, Operations, and Engineering to move faster and make smarter decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and operating distributed software systems, including significant data engineering experience
- Deep, hands-on experience with distributed data processing frameworks like Spark and Flink
- Experience operating reliable systems with defined SLAs/SLOs and reliability targets
- Strong understanding of failure modes in distributed systems and how to design for fault tolerance and recovery
- Experience with distributed stream processing frameworks like Flink and Kafka
- Familiarity with lakehouse architectures and table formats such as Iceberg or Delta Lake
- Experience running data workloads on Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Lead CoreWeave's growing data engineering function
- Build and maintain the company's petabyte-scale enterprise data lake
- Design resilient data pipelines, scalable lakehouse systems, and high-quality datasets
- Ensure operational excellence and stay hands-on in key parts of the data ecosystem
- Partner closely with stakeholders across the entire business to translate strategic priorities into scalable data solutions
- Guide engineering execution and stay hands-on in key parts of the data ecosystem
- Operate reliable systems with defined SLAs/SLOs and reliability targets
Other
- 3+ years of experience managing and scaling engineering teams responsible for production systems
- Track record of hiring, onboarding, and performance-managing engineers in growing organizations
- Demonstrated experience setting, executing, and tracking objectives and key results (OKRs) using quantitative signals and operational metrics
- Ability to work in a hybrid work environment, with remote work considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office
- Must be a U.S. person, defined as a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or eligible to access export controlled information without a required export authorization
