Senior Software Engineer II (GPU Systems)

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

Salary: $182,000–$242,000 base salary per year, plus potential 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 secure execution environments for containerized and virtualized workloads.
• Build GPU-aware scheduling, isolation, and resource-management strategies for multi-tenant Kubernetes workloads.
• Optimize container, VM, and I/O performance for GPU-accelerated workloads.
• Profile, benchmark, and tune runtime, virtualization, and GPU stacks.
• Influence architecture across Linux internals, container runtimes, virtualization layers, and GPU drivers.
• Collaborate with security, platform, and infrastructure teams to define runtime isolation and performance standards.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in systems, platform, infrastructure, or production engineering at scale.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, cloud-native architectures, controllers, operators, or scheduling extensions.
• Experience designing, implementing, or operating secure execution environments, container runtimes, sandboxed workloads, or virtualized systems.
• Practical experience with Kata Containers, gVisor, KubeVirt, QEMU, or comparable virtualization and sandboxing technologies.
• Experience supporting GPU-accelerated workloads in multi-tenant environments, including scheduling, isolation, device passthrough, mediated devices, or virtualization.
• Proficiency in Go, C/C++, Rust, or Bash, strong Linux internals knowledge, and experience diagnosing performance, reliability, or isolation issues.

Nice to have

• Experience safely executing untrusted or sensitive workloads in shared environments.
• Familiarity with GPU drivers and low-level virtualization or I/O optimization.
• Experience defining threat models and implementing runtime security policies for multi-tenant systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial, collaborative environment focused on independent thinking and innovative solutions.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave, plus life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) with employer match, flexible PTO, paid parental leave, and tuition reimbursement.
• Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, mental wellness benefits, and family-forming support.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program, childcare support, and catered meals at office and data center locations.