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Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking Senior Software Engineers who specialize across the pillars of Observability to play a pivotal role in CoreWeave’s ability to bring the best performing systems to market. Whether you focus on metrics, logging and tracing, or telemetry pipelines and visualization, you’ll have an outsized opportunity to enable both CoreWeave and its customers to understand, troubleshoot, and optimize complex systems at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDesign, build, and own core observability infrastructure, including highly scalable and reliable logging, metrics, and tracing platforms.\nDevelop and operate high-throughput telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform, and expose observability data, ensuring reliability, security, and transparent data migrations for platform consumers.\nTackle observability challenges at extreme scale, supporting clusters of thousands of GPUs, petabyte-scale telemetry, and high-cardinality workloads.\nContinuously improve performance, security, reliability, and scalability of observability services through software enhancements, automation, and new feature development.\nParticipate in the team’s on-call rotation to support critical production systems, focusing on root cause analysis and building durable solutions to prevent recurrence.\nCollaborate closely with internal engineering teams, applying a platform-as-a-product mindset to understand their needs and embed observability best practices and custom tooling into their systems.\nContribute to the overall observability strategy, influencing the direction of our platform and the experience we provide to customers.\nWho You Are\n5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.\nProficient in Go (our primary language) or Python, with the ability to write clean, resilient, and testable production code.\nHands-on Kubernetes experience in production, including containerization and microservices architectures, and familiarity with their observability challenges.\nDemonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering robust and scalable systems, with a commitment to operational excellence, high-quality code, effective testing, and progressive release strategies.\nAbility to analyze and decompose complex problems in elastic, distributed architectures into manageable, well-scoped work.\nComfortable working with Helm and YAML-based configuration for deploying and managing services, including templating, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices.\nA customer-obsessed, platform-minded engineer, eager to provide infrastructure as a service and apply a product lens when evaluating platform scale problems.\nExperience participating in an on-call rotation for critical production systems.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDirect, hands-on experience designing, operating, or scaling logging, tracing, and/or metrics platforms (e.g., Loki, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Thanos).\nFamiliarity with data streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Kafka Connect) for observability pipelines.\nExperience automating and provisioning infrastructure as part of the software development lifecycle, using tools like Terraform.\nExperience with OpenTelemetry for unified telemetry collection and instrumentation.\nExperience with modern AI platforms and workloads (e.g., large-scale training and inference, GPU-based infrastructure, MLOps tooling) is a plus.\nThe base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility). \nWhat We Offer\nThe range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.\nIn addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave\nCompany-paid Life Insurance \nVoluntary supplemental life insurance \nShort and long-term disability insurance \nFlexible Spending Account\nHealth Savings Account\nTuition Reimbursement \nAbility to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)\nMental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health \nFamily-Forming support provided by Carrot\nPaid Parental Leave \nFlexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside\n401(k) with a generous employer match\nFlexible PTO\nCatered lunch each day in our office and data center locations\nA casual work environment\nA work culture focused on innovative disruption\nCalifornia Applicants\nCalifornia Consumer Privacy Act \nEqual Opportunity & Accommodations\nCoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.\nAs part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: .\nExport Control Compliance\nThis position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a 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, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. 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