Engineering Manager. Observability

CoreWeave Europe; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 321,000 - 428,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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 innovativedisr

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking an Engineering Manager, Observability to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. You will shape technical strategy, improve platform reliability, and guide architectural decisions with cross‑functional partners.

You will recruit and develop talent, ensure scalable instrumentation, and drive adoption as the platform grows to meet customer demand.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale.
• 4+ years of engineering management leading senior engineers and technical leads.
• Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault‑tolerant design.
• Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines.
• Define technical strategy and roadmaps, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions.
• Partner with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and adoption.
• Recruit and develop talent while ensuring observability platforms scale with business growth.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Observability platforms

Reliability engineering

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Hiring and leadership

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Distributed tracing tools

Kubernetes

Cloud-native infra

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:

The Observability Engineering organisation at CoreWeave is responsible for the platforms and practices that help engineers understand, operate, and improve production systems at scale. This team owns and evolves the foundations for metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and observability reliability, enabling teams to detect issues quickly, troubleshoot complex distributed systems, and operate AI infrastructure with confidence.

About the role:

As an Engineering Manager, Observability, you will lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. You will define technical strategy and roadmaps, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across our observability infrastructure. In this role, you will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation, enhance production visibility, and drive platform adoption. Combining technical leadership, operational ownership, and people management, you will recruit and develop talent while ensuring observability platforms scale seamlessly with business growth and customer demand.

Who You Are:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale
• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads
• Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting in distributed systems
• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault‑tolerant design
• Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers
• Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade‑offs involving scale, resilience, and cost
• Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption
• Experience hiring and managing engineering teams

Preferred:

• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing tools
• Experience operating cloud‑native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments
• Experience supporting large‑scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure
• Familiarity with capacity planning for high‑ingest telemetry systems
• Experience scaling platforms in high‑growth environments

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: Solve complex systems problems across infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity.
• You're curious about: Improving observability, debugging workflows, and large‑scale distributed systems.
• You're an expert in: Balancing scalability, reliability, and cost in production environments.

Why CoreWeave?

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.