Staff Engineer (Storage Engine)

CoreWeave; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Storage Systems Engineer to design and implement distributed storage for AI workloads. You will collaborate with infrastructure, compute, and platform teams to deliver high-performance storage services that scale across clusters.

The role requires deep experience with object storage or distributed filesystems, Kubernetes, and performance instrumentation. You will develop reliable, observable storage pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, and

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in storage systems engineering or infrastructure.
• Production experience with object storage or distributed filesystems.
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable architectures.
• Proficiency in Go, C, or Rust.
• Familiarity with telemetry tools and pipelines (Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse).
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed storage solutions to support scaling data intensive AI workloads.
• Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage and integrate dedicated storage clusters into diverse customer environments.
• Lead efforts to improve reliability, durability, security, and observability of the storage stack.
• Collaborate with operations teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve storage systems in production environments.
• Share knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed, high-performance systems.

Skills

Storage systems

Object storage

Kubernetes

Go

C

Rust

Telemetry & observability

Prometheus

Grafana

Ceph/DAOS

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Ceph

DAOS

NFS

S3

ClickHouse

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

Go

Rust

C

Job description

• The Storage Engine Team at CoreWeave is responsible for the product capabilities and data plane function of CoreWeave’s managed storage products
• We build reliable, scalable storage solutions with segment leading performance. Storage engine works with engineering teams across infrastructure, compute, and platform to ensure our storage services meet the needs of the world’s most demanding AI workloads
• Design and Implement distributed storage solutions to support scaling data intensive AI workloads
• Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage and integrate dedicated storage clusters into diverse customer environments
• Work with technologies such as RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, and distributed filesystems protocols such as NFS or FUSE to optimize storage performance and efficiency
• Lead efforts to improve the reliability, durability, security, and observability of our storage stack
• Collaborate with operations teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve storage systems in production environments
• Set the bar for developing metrics and dashboards to provide visibility into storage performance and health
• Analyze telemetry and system data to drive improvements in throughput, latency, and resilience
• Work cross-functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities across the stack
• Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed, high-performance systems

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience working in storage systems engineering or infrastructure
• Strong hands‑on experience with object storage or distributed filesystems in production environments
• Experience working with cloud‑native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architectures
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience with one or more storage protocols (e.g. S3, NFS) and file systems such as Ceph, DAOS, or similar
• Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, C, or Rust
• Familiarity with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines (e.g., ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Proficiency leveraging AI tools to augment software development