Software Engineer (Kubernetes)

In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the availability, reliability, and scalability of one of the industry’s largest Kubernetes environments

As a senior member of the team, you will drive operational excellence, implement robust automation, and help shape the systems that keep CoreWeave’s cloud running smoothly

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

Mentor and support other engineers in production best practices, fostering a culture of high accountability and operational awareness

What Success Looks Like

You deliver stable, robust, and highly-available systems that consistently meet or exceed uptime and performance targets

You champion initiatives that drive automation, reduce operational toil, and increase the efficiency of incident response

Your leadership in root cause analysis, postmortems, and process improvement makes the Kubernetes platform more resilient and scalable

You actively contribute to a blameless culture of learning, mentoring others in operational best practices and production engineering principles

You help CoreWeave maintain industry leadership through flawless execution in supporting demanding, AI-powered workloads at scale- Demonstrate strong proficiency in infrastructure-focused programming—especially in Go and Bash—and hold a deep understanding of Linux systems

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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