Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Infrastructure

CoreWeave•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team in the Data Infrastructure organization is responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of the company’s data platform. The team builds and operates the foundational systems that power data ingestion, transformation, analytics, and internal AI workloads at scale. We operate with production-grade discipline, supporting mission-critical services with stringent uptime requirements and a focus on automation, observability, and resilience. About the role: As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform. You will design and operate highly available, multi-region systems, ensuring our services meet strict uptime and latency targets. Day-to-day, you’ll work on scaling infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, and hardening our security posture. You’ll play a key role in evolving our DevSecOps practices while partnering closely with engineering teams to ensure services are built for reliability from day one.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerized software services, including cluster design, operations, and troubleshooting in production environments
Strong experience building and operating CI/CD systems, including tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions
Proven experience owning production systems with high availability requirements (≥99.99% uptime), including incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and postmortems
Hands-on experience designing and operating geo-replicated, multi-region, active-active systems, including traffic routing, failover strategies, and data consistency tradeoffs
Strong experience building and owning observability components, including metrics, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Helm, Terraform, Pulumi) and automated environment provisioning
Strong understanding of system performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed systems
Experience implementing and operating security best practices in cloud-native environments (e.g., secrets management, network policies, vulnerability scanning)

Nice To Haves

Experience operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads (e.g., Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink)
Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
Experience working in regulated environments with compliance frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, or SOX
Background in building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure

Responsibilities

Own the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform.
Design and operate highly available, multi-region systems, ensuring our services meet strict uptime and latency targets.
Work on scaling infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, and hardening our security posture.
Play a key role in evolving our DevSecOps practices while partnering closely with engineering teams to ensure services are built for reliability from day one.