Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orch (SUNK)

CoreWeave; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 369,000 - 542,300; 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

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Engineer (IC5) to lead and shape the orchestration platform aimed at AI workloads. The role requires 8-12 years of software engineering experience, including expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes and Go. You will mentor senior engineers and drive initiatives in scheduling and scaling.

The position offers a competitive salary range of 369,000 – 542,300 PLN, along with additional bonuses and a comprehensive benefits program. Join us in advancing AI cloud solutions!

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals and cloud-native development.

Responsibilities

• Define architectural direction for CoreWeave’s orchestration platform.
• Drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling.
• Mentor senior engineers and establish best practices.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Distributed systems design

Slurm/Kubernetes internals

Proficiency in Go

Mentoring skills

Job description

About The Role

As part of the Cluster Orchestration team, you will play a key role in advancing CoreWeave’s orchestration platform, including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond, our Kubernetes-native foundation that powers AI training and inference at scale. This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the AI cloud: ensuring workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters. By building the systems that eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and create new orchestration capabilities, you will directly empower customers to innovate faster and push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.

What You’ll Do

As a Staff Engineer (IC5), you will be a technical leader shaping the long‑term strategy for CoreWeave’s orchestration platform. You’ll define architectural direction, own critical parts of the orchestration platform and other managed services, and drive cross‑org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling at hyperscale. You’ll mentor senior engineers, establish org‑wide best practices in reliability and observability, and ensure CoreWeave’s orchestration layer evolves to meet the demands of next‑generation AI workloads.

Who You Are

• 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proven track record designing and operating large‑scale distributed systems in production.
• Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals and cloud‑native development.
• Advanced proficiency in Go and distributed systems design.
• Experience setting technical direction and influencing cross‑team architecture.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate organizational standards.

Preferred

• Familiarity with orchestration and workflow technologies such as Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, or Argo Workflows.
• Experience with distributed workloads, GPU‑based applications, or ML pipelines.
• Knowledge of scheduling concepts like quota enforcement, pre‑emption, and scaling strategies.
• Exposure to reliability practices including SLOs, alarms, and post‑incident reviews.
• Experience with AI infrastructure and workloads (ML training, inference, or HPC).

What You’ll Love About Working Here

• You love defining long‑term architecture for systems at global scale.
• You’re curious about orchestration beyond SUNK and how to evolve it for next‑generation AI.
• You’re an expert at mentorship, architecture, and operational excellence across teams.
• You thrive on solving problems that balance cost, performance, and reliability in high‑demand environments.

Compensation

Base salary range: 369,000 – 542,300 PLN. Additional discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program.

Benefits

• 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

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; or (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.