Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration (Kubernetes)

CoreWeave; Singapore; On-site; SGD 200,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave seeks a Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration (SUNK), to shape architecture and strategy for its Kubernetes-native orchestration platform powering AI training and inference across massive GPU clusters.

You will own key components, drive cross-team initiatives in scheduling and quota enforcement, and mentor engineers while delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure in a high-demand environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record of designing, operating, and scaling large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Advanced software development proficiency in Go and strong distributed systems design principles.
• Deep technical expertise in Kubernetes internals, Slurm schedulers, or cloud-native development.
• Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and successfully influencing cross-team architecture and platform goals.
• Proven ability to mentor senior engineers, review complex technical designs, and elevate organisational operational standards.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term architecture and strategy for CoreWeave’s orchestration platform.
• Own critical components of our orchestration layers and managed services.
• Drive major cross-organisational initiatives in scheduling, multi-tenant quota enforcement, and hyperscale scaling.
• Establish organisation-wide best practices for platform reliability and observability.
• Resolve complex distributed bottlenecks under intense demand and mentor senior engineers across teams.

Skills

8+ years software engineering

Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes internals

Slurm schedulers

Technical leadership

Mentoring engineers

Experience directing architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

Job description

CoreWeave seeks a Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration (SUNK), to shape architecture and strategy for its Kubernetes-native orchestration platform powering AI training and inference across massive GPU clusters.

You will own key components, drive cross-team initiatives in scheduling and quota enforcement, and mentor engineers while delivering reliable, scalable infrastructure in a high-demand environment.