Senior Software Engineer, Storage (AI)

Location: Livingston, NJ; New York, NY; Sunnyvale, CA; or Bellevue, WA, United States

Salary: $143,000–$210,000 base salary per year, plus discretionary bonus, equity awards, and benefits.

Company

CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure, tools, and services for building and scaling AI workloads.

What you will do

• Design and implement distributed storage solutions for data-intensive AI workloads.
• Develop exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage and integrate dedicated storage clusters into customer environments.
• Optimize storage performance using RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, NFS, FUSE, and distributed filesystem technologies.
• Improve the reliability, durability, security, and observability of the storage stack.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production storage systems in collaboration with operations, platform, product, and infrastructure teams.
• Build metrics and dashboards, analyze telemetry, and mentor engineers on high-performance distributed systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8–10+ years of experience in storage systems engineering or infrastructure.
• Hands-on production experience with object storage or distributed filesystems.
• Experience with storage protocols such as S3 or NFS and filesystems such as Ceph, DAOS, or similar.
• Proficiency in Go, C, or Rust, plus experience with cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable architectures.
• Must satisfy U.S. export-control access requirements, including U.S. person status or eligibility for the required authorization.

Nice to have

• Expertise in data persistence on physical media, high-performance RDMA data transfer, or resilient distributed systems.
• Experience with ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability and telemetry tools.
• Proficiency using AI tools to augment software development.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial environment focused on independent thinking, collaboration, and innovative solutions.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave for eligible U.S.-based employees.
• Life, disability, mental wellness, family-forming, childcare, and parental leave benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement, ESPP participation, 401(k) with employer match, and flexible PTO.
• Casual work environment with catered meals at office and data center locations.