Staff Software Engineer, GPU Data Center Automation

CoreWeave; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Compute Architecture group. You will help build software systems that operate the backbone of large-scale GPU data centers, focusing on Go-based distributed services and infrastructure automation.

You will design, build, and operate services that manage lifecycle, health, and firmware state across fleets of GPU servers, with emphasis on reliability, scalability, and observability. Strong leadership and mentoring are expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with infra, cloud, and distributed databases.
• Strong Go expertise and REST/gRPC API experience for mission-critical platforms.
• Excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Track record of leading incident response, postmortems, and reliability initiatives.
• Mentor engineers, lead technical projects, and influence engineering strategy.
• Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, PromQL), CI/CD, and large GPU fleets.
• Background in architecting and scaling cloud-native Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Experience contributing to/open-source collaboration and GPU server management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Go-based services for large-scale GPU data centers.
• Build automation for hardware bring-up, health monitoring, and remediation.
• Develop reliable REST/gRPC APIs for BMCs, firmware state, and health data.
• Improve observability and tooling to detect and resolve production issues quickly.
• Translate incidents into software improvements for platform resilience.
• Partner with hardware-adjacent and software teams to scale fleet deployments.
• Provide technical leadership through design and code reviews and mentorship.
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions balancing reliability, simplicity, and scale.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Cloud engineering

Kubernetes

Observability

CI/CD

REST APIs

gRPC

Mentoring

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

PromQL

Kafka

ClickHouse

Redfish

CRDB

DMTF

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Compute Architecture group. You will help build software systems that operate the backbone of large-scale GPU data centers, focusing on Go-based distributed services and infrastructure automation.

You will design, build, and operate services that manage lifecycle, health, and firmware state across fleets of GPU servers, with emphasis on reliability, scalability, and observability. Strong leadership and mentoring are expected.