Staff Software Engineer, Distributed AI Platform

Fdetimes; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 134,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Equity awards (as applicable)

Job summary

CoreWeave in London-style location is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive architectural evolution of the platform, moving from monolithic to distributed systems and enabling agentic AI workflows. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes design, testing, deployment, and reliability while mentoring the engineering team.

You will implement production-grade Python components, own CI/CD and observability practices, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, incl. staff level.
• Deep distributed systems architecture and backend know-how.
• Expert Python development at scale and secure-by-default practices.
• Strong API/service interface design for distributed services.
• Experience with AWS; Azure/GCP beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural evolution from monolithic to distributed backend.
• Write production-quality Python code for core platform components.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, testing, and deployment for platform services.
• Drive reliability, observability, and SRE practices.
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and set best practices.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

CI/CD

SRE/production reliability

Kubernetes

OAuth

Temporal/Airflow

AWS

Spark/Ray

Python architecture

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Airflow

Kubernetes production workloads

Job description

CoreWeave in London-style location is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive architectural evolution of the platform, moving from monolithic to distributed systems and enabling agentic AI workflows. This hands-on leadership role emphasizes design, testing, deployment, and reliability while mentoring the engineering team.

You will implement production-grade Python components, own CI/CD and observability practices, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and