Engineering Manager (Kubernetes Infrastructure)

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

Salary: $182,000–$242,000 base salary annually, plus discretionary bonus, equity awards, and benefits.

Company

CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure, tools, and services for building and scaling AI workloads on high-performance computing infrastructure.

What you will do

• Lead a team responsible for Kubernetes infrastructure running directly on bare metal.
• Set team goals, priorities, execution plans, and operating mechanisms.
• Partner with senior engineers and platform teams on cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, reliability, observability, and automation.
• Improve incident response, on-call health, root-cause analysis, service ownership, and production readiness.
• Support provisioning, patching, scaling, and troubleshooting of Kubernetes clusters.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers while building strong relationships with compute, networking, storage, security, and product teams.

Requirements

• Experience managing an infrastructure, platform, or SRE-oriented engineering team.
• Strong technical depth in Kubernetes, distributed systems, and production infrastructure.
• Experience operating Kubernetes in complex environments, including bare metal, hybrid, or performance-sensitive systems.
• Experience with cluster provisioning, upgrades, node operations, observability, reliability engineering, and incident response.
• Ability to improve execution, engineering quality, operational maturity, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Applicants must meet applicable U.S. export-control access requirements, including U.S. person status or eligibility for required authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience with GPU-heavy, HPC, or ML infrastructure.
• Experience with bare-metal infrastructure, server lifecycle operations, or low-level systems troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes networking, storage, and security primitives.
• Experience building internal platform products and automating infrastructure with Go, Python, controllers, operators, or configuration management systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave, plus life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match, flexible spending and health savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, and an employee stock purchase program.
• Paid parental leave, family-forming support, childcare support, flexible PTO, and mental wellness benefits.
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial work environment focused on innovation, independent thinking, and high-performance client experiences.
• Catered lunches at office and data center locations.