Senior Manager, Observability

CoreWeave•Sunnyvale, CA

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Observability Engineering organization at CoreWeave is responsible for the platforms and practices that help engineers understand, operate, and improve production systems at scale. This team owns and evolves the foundations for metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and observability reliability, enabling teams to detect issues quickly, troubleshoot complex distributed systems, and operate AI infrastructure with confidence. As CoreWeave continues to scale, observability plays a critical role in delivering reliable platform experiences, improving engineering velocity, and maintaining operational excellence across a rapidly growing cloud environment. CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. In this role, you will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure. You will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility. This role combines technical leadership, operational ownership, and team management to ensure observability platforms scale with business and customer needs.

Requirements

8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale
4+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads
Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting in distributed systems
Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design
Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers
Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and cost
Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption
Experience hiring and managing engineering teams

Nice To Haves

Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing tools
Experience operating cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments
Experience supporting large-scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure
Familiarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systems
Experience scaling platforms in high-growth environments

Responsibilities

Lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines.
Define strategy and roadmap for observability systems.
Drive platform reliability and performance improvements.
Guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure.
Partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility.
Ensure observability platforms scale with business and customer needs.