Director of Software Engineering, Observability

Core Weave • New York, NY

72d • $206,000 - $303,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

CoreWeave is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the development of our Observability product suite for AI/ML workloads. In this highly technical and strategic role, you will lead a world-class team to design, build, and operate observability solutions at scale. You'll collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to ensure our Observability delivers a unified experience across CoreWeave products.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, or cloud systems.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership roles, including hiring, scaling, and mentoring teams.
• Proven track record of building and managing large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey storage engineering strategies and practices to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in building telemetry solutions, such as logging, metrics and tracing.
• Understanding of cloud computing infrastructure using Kubernetes.
• You've worked at a cloud provider or hyperscaler and understand the scale and complexity.
• You're familiar with telemetry, or multi-tenant compute environments.
• You've scaled infrastructure for cloud services in production.
• You're an expert at balancing cost, performance, and reliability in high-demand systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive CoreWeave's Observability roadmap and strategy.
• Lead and grow a high-performing team of software engineers and managers.
• Design and implement advanced solutions, including low-latency, high-scale Observability pipelines across all products.
• Build solutions that offer insights to customers for rapid troubleshooting of their AI workloads.
• Champion initiatives to improve reliability, durability, and self-healing capabilities of Observability metrics, and assume operational responsibilities.
• Develop operational review practices to assess performance against targets and iterating on those targets.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices in product engineering, fostering a customer-focused approach to systems design and technical excellence.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree