Staff Software Engineer (IAM)

Location: New York, NY. Hybrid work environment prioritized; remote considered for candidates more than 30 miles from office. New hires attend onboarding at hubs; quarterly team gatherings. Requires U.S. person status for export-controlled information.

Salary: $188,000 - $275,000

Company

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI, delivering infrastructure for AI labs, startups, and enterprises. Publicly traded (Nasdaq: CRWV) since 2025.

What you will do

• Partner with leadership to create multi-year IAM technical roadmap balancing business needs and architecture.
• Lead design and implementation of high-throughput distributed auth/authz systems across services.
• Architect customer-facing identity lifecycle management, IdP integration (SAML/OIDC), and permission models.
• Champion security-first practices, code quality, design reviews, and threat modeling organization-wide.
• Define SLOs, observability, and automation to improve operations.
• Mentor engineers and influence security initiatives across engineering.

Requirements

• 10+ years building/operating large-scale distributed systems with Go, TypeScript, or React.
• 5+ years IAM expertise: OIDC, OAuth2.0, SAML, JWT.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects to scale with business impact.
• Deep Kubernetes, microservices, CI/CD knowledge.
• Enterprise security, compliance (SOC2, HIPAA), governance understanding.
• Strong communication and analytical debugging skills.

Nice to have

• Leading monolith to microservices transformation.
• AI agents for development (Claude, Cursor).
• AI/ML workloads, GPU infra, MLOps security.
• Policy-as-Code (OPA, Cedar).

Culture & Benefits

• Core values: curiosity, ownership, empowerment, client focus, teamwork.
• 100% paid medical/dental/vision; life/disability insurance; FSA/HSA.
• 401(k) match, tuition reimbursement, ESPP, mental wellness, family support.
• Paid parental leave, flexible PTO, childcare support.
• Casual environment, catered lunches at offices/data centers.