Sr. Software Engineer, Inference

CoreWeave; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Equity awards

Benefits programme

Job summary

CoreWeave in London seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Inference, to own architectural designs and raise engineering standards across multiple services. You will partner with product, orchestration, and hardware teams to evolve a Kubernetes-native inference platform while meeting strict P99 SLAs at scale.

You will lead design reviews, decompose multi-service work into milestones, and own infrastructure areas such as request routing, adaptive scheduling, and capacity planning, while mentoring

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional industry experience building distributed systems or high-performance cloud services.
• Strong software development skills in Python or Go, with deep familiarity with networked systems and performance optimisation.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at production scale, including automated CI/CD and modern observability stacks.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own design reviews for inference platform components and services.
• Decompose multi-service work into milestones and drive delivery.
• Improve tail latency and service reliability through metrics-driven engineering and capacity planning.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python/Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Performance tuning

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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.

We’re proud to be a Living Wage accredited Employer.

What You’ll Do

CoreWeave’s Inference team builds and operates the core cloud platform powering massive-scale GPU workloads for generative AI and real-time inference applications. Our stack is engineered natively on Kubernetes for maximum speed, scale, and cost efficiency- providing an industry-defining platform that enables teams to deploy models with confidence across organizational boundaries.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, Inference, you will serve as an area owner responsible for leading technical designs, raising engineering standards, and delivering measurable improvements across multiple services. You will partner with product, orchestration, and hardware teams to evolve our Kubernetes-native inference platform while meeting strict P99 SLAs at scale. In this role, you will lead design reviews, decompose multi-service work into clear milestones, and own critical infrastructure areas such as request routing, adaptive scheduling, cost-per-token analytics, and GPU resource isolation. Additionally, you will implement advanced optimizations—including micro-batch schedulers, speculative decoding, and KV-cache reuse—while refining capacity planning, autoscaling policies, and mentoring engineers across the team.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years of professional industry experience building distributed systems or high-performance cloud services.
• Strong software development skills in Python or Go, alongside deep familiarity with networked systems and performance optimisation.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at production scale, including automated CI/CD and modern observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Practical, working knowledge of inference internals: batching strategies, caching, mixed precision (BF16/FP8), and streaming token delivery.
• Proven track record of improving tail latency (P95/P99) and service reliability through metrics-driven engineering work.
• Experience defining and owning SLIs/SLOs, managing capacity planning, autoscaling policies, and driving post-incident remediation.

Preferred

• Experience with low-level systems and high-performance computing components (e.g., C++ development, CUDA kernels, NCCL/SHARP, RDMA/NUMA, or GPU interconnect topologies).
• Active open-source or production contributions to modern inference frameworks (e.g., vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, or TorchServe).
• Experience leading multi-team technical initiatives or partnering directly with enterprise customers on mission-critical platform launches.

Wondering if you’re a good fit?

We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams—even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match.

• You love to: Own critical architectural spaces, breaking down complex multi-service engineering work into high-impact, achievable milestones.
• You're curious about: Pioneering advanced model serving optimisations to maximise platform throughput and drive cost-per-token efficiencies.
• You're an expert in: Metrics-driven engineering, systematically troubleshooting tail latency bottlenecks, and elevating coding and testing standards across a team.

Why CoreWeave?

About

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take-off, the organisation’s growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is 321,000 PLN to 428,000 PLN gross annually. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits programme (subject to eligibility).

To fulfill our obligation to protect client data, successful applicants offered employment with CoreWeave will be required to complete a basic criminal record check, conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results.

What We Offer

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:

• Family-level Medical Insurance
• Family-level Dental Insurance
• Generous Pension Contribution
• Life Assurance at 4x Salary
• Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Work culture focused on innovative disruption

Benefits may vary by location.

Equal Opportunity

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.

• 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C.
• 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency.

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