Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration
About The Position
As part of the Cluster Orchestration team, you will play a key role in advancing CoreWeave’s orchestration platform including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond, our Kubernetes-native foundation that powers AI training and inference at scale. This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the AI cloud: ensuring workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters. By building the systems that eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and create new orchestration capabilities, you will directly empower customers to innovate faster and push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI. As a Staff Engineer (IC5), you will be a technical leader shaping the long-term strategy for CoreWeave’s orchestration platform. You’ll define architectural direction, own critical parts of the orchestration platform and other managed services, and drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling at hyperscale. You’ll mentor senior engineers, establish org-wide best practices in reliability and observability, and ensure CoreWeave’s orchestration layer evolves to meet the demands of next-generation AI workloads.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals and cloud-native development.
- Advanced proficiency in Go and distributed systems design.
- Experience setting technical direction and influencing cross-team architecture.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with orchestration and workflow technologies such as Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, or Argo Workflows
- Experience with distributed workloads, GPU-based applications, or ML pipelines.
- Knowledge of scheduling concepts like quota enforcement, pre-emption, and scaling strategies.
- Exposure to reliability practices including SLOs, alarms, and post-incident reviews.
- Experience with AI infrastructure and workloads (ML training, inference, or HPC).
- Ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate organizational standards.
Responsibilities
- Define architectural direction for CoreWeave’s orchestration platform
- Own critical parts of the orchestration platform and other managed services
- Drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling at hyperscale
- Mentor senior engineers
- Establish org-wide best practices in reliability and observability
- Ensure CoreWeave’s orchestration layer evolves to meet the demands of next-generation AI workloads
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
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
