CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive the maturation and scaling of their internal delivery platform, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and usability of the core application management platform within CoreWeave.
Requirements
- Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, including deep understanding of its architecture, core components, and extension points (operators, CRDs, admission controllers)
- Strong proficiency in Go as a primary programming language for building production systems
- Extensive hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux) and gitops-based delivery patterns
- Deep understanding of progressive deployment strategies, traffic management, canary rollouts, and error budgets
- Strong experience with Linux systems, shell scripting, and networking/storage fundamentals
- Experience building or contributing to platform engineering or developer productivity teams
- Track record of designing and implementing Kubernetes operators or custom controllers
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical vision and architecture for CoreWeave's internal delivery platform, defining the roadmap that enables efficient orchestration of services across one of the most dynamic cloud environments today
- Drive technical decision-making across complex, multi-faceted problems involving CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes infrastructure, deployment strategies, and service delivery at scale
- Architect and implement scalable solutions for progressive rollouts, traffic shaping, application packaging, and channel management that power thousands of deployments
- Establish technical standards and best practices for service delivery, championing their adoption across all engineering teams through influence and collaboration
- Design and build custom Kubernetes operators, controllers, and orchestration systems that enable declarative, reliable delivery of applications at massive scale
- Own the reliability and performance of critical delivery infrastructure, applying SRE fundamentals to achieve ambitious availability and deployment velocity targets
- Evaluate and integrate innovative tools and practices from the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystems, balancing cutting-edge solutions with production stability
Other
- 7+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering
- Proven experience leading technical initiatives and driving consensus across teams in complex, ambiguous environments
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical decisions and build alignment across engineering and leadership
- Previous experience as a technical lead or staff-level engineer guiding team direction and mentoring engineers
- U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158
