Manager, Production Engineering
About The Position
CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com. Prime Systems & Services builds and operates internal Kubernetes platforms and foundational infrastructure services that CoreWeave depends on. We are a new team focused on making these systems reliable, scalable, and easy to operate. Our work combines Kubernetes, software, systems, and reliability engineering to improve how infrastructure is deployed, changed, and supported at scale. About the role: We are seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead a team of infrastructure and systems engineers. You will have the opportunity to shape the team from its earliest stage and translate an evolving charter into a clear, sustainable operating model. In partnership with technical leadership, you will establish how the team delivers, operates, and grows while remaining accountable for its people, priorities, and outcomes.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or production engineering, including people leadership.
- Managed engineers responsible for production systems with meaningful reliability requirements.
- Experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
- Improved operational practices such as on-call, SLOs, observability, incident response, or change management.
- Turned ambiguous ownership or cross-team dependencies into clear plans and delivered outcomes.
- Can guide technical tradeoffs and work effectively with senior engineers without becoming the team's sole architect.
- Experience hiring, coaching, managing performance, and communicating priorities and risks to technical teams and senior leaders.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building a new engineering team or platform function.
- Experience operating Kubernetes at scale or on bare metal.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation, GitOps, and progressive delivery.
- Experience leading teams with both development and operational responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers.
- Set clear priorities, roadmaps, ownership, and measures of success.
- Define clear decision-making, escalation, and on-call practices as the team grows.
- Partner with technical leaders to guide architecture and deliver reliable infrastructure and automation.
- Establish strong practices for testing, observability, safe changes, incident response, and on-call.
- Use operational and delivery data to identify risks and guide investment.
- Resolve cross-team dependencies and create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
