Engineering Leader — Kubernetes Infra on Bare Metal

CoreWeave; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid Parental Leave

Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking an Engineering Manager for Kubernetes Infrastructure to lead a team building and operating Kubernetes on bare metal, delivering reliability and scalability for AI workloads. This hands-on leadership role drives platform reliability and operational excellence across high-performance compute environments.

You will mentor engineers, partner with platform, networking, compute, and product teams, set clear priorities, and focus on incident response, observability, and durable

Qualifications

• Experience leading an infrastructure, platform, or SRE team.
• Strong Kubernetes and distributed systems knowledge.
• Proven ability to operate Kubernetes in complex, bare-metal or high-performance environments.
• Track record of improving reliability and team execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for Kubernetes infrastructure on bare metal.
• Set clear goals, priorities, and execution plans for the team, and ensure reliable delivery.
• Partner with senior ICs and adjacent teams on the roadmap for cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, reliability, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Improve the team's operational excellence across incident response, on-call health, root-cause analysis, and service ownership.
• Drive engineering best practices for safe change management, testing, rollout quality, and production readiness.
• Support the design and operation of platform capabilities for provisioning, patching, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting of Kubernetes clusters.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with compute, networking, storage, security, and product stakeholders.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers while creating a high-accountability, high-trust team culture.
• Establish and improve mechanisms for planning, prioritization, execution tracking, and continuous improvement.
• Help translate complex platform and infrastructure work into clear business and customer value.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Production infrastructure

Team leadership

Incident response

Technical coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

Go

Python

Controllers/Operators

Configuration management

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking an Engineering Manager for Kubernetes Infrastructure to lead a team building and operating Kubernetes on bare metal, delivering reliability and scalability for AI workloads. This hands-on leadership role drives platform reliability and operational excellence across high-performance compute environments.

You will mentor engineers, partner with platform, networking, compute, and product teams, set clear priorities, and focus on incident response, observability, and durable