Senior Engineer, Compute Services (Kubernetes, Bare Metal)

Location: Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA

Salary: $153,000–$204,000 (base)

Company

CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure and tools enabling teams to build and scale AI workloads.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare metal
• Build tooling and operators using Python, Golang, and Bash
• Run day-2 lifecycle tasks and maintenance for running clusters
• Identify gaps and implement fault-tolerant architectures
• Optimize reliability using the Grafana ecosystem
• Design automated testing to validate build quality and stability, and participate in an on-call rotation every two months

Requirements

• Proven experience provisioning Kubernetes using kubeadm, Cluster API, Kubeception, Kubespray, or similar tools
• Demonstrated ability debugging complex Kubernetes cluster issues and performing upgrades
• Proficiency in Golang, Bash, and Python
• Advanced Linux OS troubleshooting skills
• Extensive experience with Ansible
• Advanced DevOps experience (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and experience with on-call rotations

Nice to have

• Bare-metal OS provisioning experience
• Kubernetes operator coding experience
• Advanced Linux networking expertise
• AWX/Ansible Tower knowledge

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave
• Company-paid life insurance, plus voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account
• Tuition reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) participation
• Flexible PTO, paid parental leave, and childcare support; catered lunch in office and data center locations

Hiring process

• Interviews to assess Kubernetes provisioning, debugging, and DevOps automation experience
• Evaluation of technical depth and collaboration through shared codebase work
• Final steps include discussion of compensation and eligibility for benefits based on location