Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration

Coreweave; Poznań; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Living Wage accreditation

Job summary

CoreWeave in Poznań is seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orch (Non SUNK), to define the technical vision and architecture for Kubernetes-native orchestration across large GPU clusters. You will drive reliability, capacity planning, and developer experience while mentoring senior engineers.

You will lead cross-team architecture reviews, align with Infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams, and tackle performance, scalability, and fairness at scale using Kueue, Volcano, and Ray.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering large-scale orchestration platforms.
• Strong systems thinking for performance, scalability and fairness at scale.
• Ability to lead cross-team architecture reviews and mentor senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technical vision and architecture for Kubernetes-native orchestration.
• Drive reliability, capacity management and developer experience across GPU clusters.
• Lead cross-team reviews and align infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Architectural leadership

Tools

Kueue

Volcano

Ray

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.

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What You'll Do

CoreWeave's AI Workload Orchestration Platform team builds and operates the core, Kubernetes-native substrate that governs how massive AI workloads are admitted, scheduled, and executed across our global GPU footprint. Serving as a strategic complement to SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes), this platform underpins both training and inference pipelines across the CoreWeave cloud, ensuring highly efficient resource utilisation for the world's most demanding AI applications.

About The Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orch (Non SUNK), you will act as a principal technical leader driving CoreWeave's Kubernetes-native orchestration strategy. You will own the technical vision and architecture for major portions of the platform, defining how AI workloads are admitted, scheduled, and governed across large GPU clusters using frameworks such as Kueue, Volcano, and Ray. In this high-impact role, you will apply systems thinking to resolve systemic performance, scalability, and fairness issues at scale. Additionally, you will lead cross-team architecture reviews, drive technical alignment across broader infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams, and establish platform-wide standards for reliability, capacity management, and developer experience while mentoring senior engineers across the organisation.

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