Cloud Production Engineering Lead (SRE)

CoreWeave; New York (NY); On-site; USD 207,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Mental Wellness Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

401(k) with generous employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch daily

Casual work environment

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Manager of Production Engineering to lead and expand the SRE team, driving reliability and efficiency for a large-scale cloud platform.

The role focuses on automation, on-call strategy, incident management, and collaboration with engineering and product teams to deliver secure and scalable services. The candidate will champion operational excellence in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years in a leadership or senior management role at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or high-growth tech company.
• Experience hiring, developing, and managing geographically distributed 24×7 engineering teams.
• Experience in designing incident management processes including on-call rotations, escalation paths, post-morts, and SLO/SLA framework.
• Strong foundation in systems engineering with distributed systems, networking, and storage.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product, platform, hardware, and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute and execute the SRE vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large-scale, distributed cloud infrastructure.
• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of SREs, promoting ownership and collaboration.
• Champion automation-first practices leveraging AI, Terraform, Kubernetes, and IaC to minimize toil.
• Establish and evolve Operational Excellence best practices for proactive platforms.
• Drive incident management, post-mortems, root cause analysis, and system hardening initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer support to build scalable, resilient systems.
• Evolve on-call strategy for a 24x7 globally distributed platform.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Infrastructure-as-Code

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Manager of Production Engineering to lead and expand the SRE team, driving reliability and efficiency for a large-scale cloud platform.

The role focuses on automation, on-call strategy, incident management, and collaboration with engineering and product teams to deliver secure and scalable services. The candidate will champion operational excellence in a fast-growing environment.