Senior Software Engineer

CoreWeave•Sunnyvale, CA

7d•$182,000 - $242,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team sits at the core of our Data Infrastructure organization, responsible for the availability, reliability, scalability, and security of the company's data platform. We build and operate the foundational systems that underpin data ingestion, transformation, analytics, and internal AI workloads at scale — delivering with production-grade discipline across mission-critical services. Our work is guided by a commitment to automation, deep observability, and resilience, supporting stringent uptime requirements that the broader organization depends on. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will take end-to-end ownership of the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform. You will architect and operate highly available, multi-region systems designed to meet rigorous uptime and latency standards. Your day-to-day work will span scaling infrastructure, optimizing deployment pipelines, and strengthening our security posture — while playing a central role in building, testing, and managing scalable systems that are production-ready from day one.

Requirements

7+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or building highly scalable distributed systems
Strong foundation in software design, development, and algorithmic problem-solving.
Familiarity operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads, including distributed processing and streaming frameworks such as Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or Flink.
Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster design, day-to-day operations, and production troubleshooting across containerized service environments.
Proven track record building and operating robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions.
Hands-on experience developing large-scale distributed systems, databases, and backend APIs.
Practical experience designing and operating geo-replicated, active-active, multi-region systems — with a solid grasp of traffic routing, failover strategies, and data consistency tradeoffs.
Strong experience building and owning full-stack observability solutions, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
Proficiency with IaC tooling such as Helm, Terraform, or Pulumi, and experience with automated environment provisioning.
Strong command of system performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed environments.
Hands-on experience applying security best practices in cloud-native settings, including secrets management, network policies, and vulnerability scanning.

Nice To Haves

Experience working within compliance-driven environments and a working knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, or SOX.
Background in designing and building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling that empowers engineering teams to move faster and operate independently.

Responsibilities

Take end-to-end ownership of the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform.
Architect and operate highly available, multi-region systems designed to meet rigorous uptime and latency standards.
Scale infrastructure, optimize deployment pipelines, and strengthen our security posture.
Build, test, and manage scalable systems that are production-ready from day one.
Own mission-critical systems with high availability requirements (≥99.99% uptime), including incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definition, error budget management, and blameless postmortems.
Develop large-scale distributed systems, databases, and backend APIs.
Design and operate geo-replicated, active-active, multi-region systems, with a solid grasp of traffic routing, failover strategies, and data consistency tradeoffs.
Build and own full-stack observability solutions, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
Provision automated environments using IaC tooling such as Helm, Terraform, or Pulumi.
Tune system performance, plan capacity, and optimize resources in distributed environments.
Apply security best practices in cloud-native settings, including secrets management, network policies, and vulnerability scanning.