Engineering Manager, Bare-Metal Kubernetes Infra

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Mental Wellness Benefits

Job summary

CoreWeave is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team building and operating Kubernetes infrastructure on bare metal. This role focuses on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for AI/ML workloads, partnering with platform, networking, compute, and product teams to deliver durable systems.

You will guide the team through lifecycle management, upgrades, observability, and automation, while mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional collaboration for rapid,

Qualifications

• Experience managing an infrastructure, platform, or SRE-oriented engineering team.
• Strong technical depth in Kubernetes, distributed systems, and production infrastructure.
• Experience operating Kubernetes in complex environments, ideally including bare metal, hybrid, or high-performance systems.
• Familiarity with cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, upgrades, node operations, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Track record of improving team execution, engineering quality, and operational maturity.
• Experience leading incident response cultures and driving follow-through on reliability improvements.
• Ability to coach engineers at different levels and create clarity in ambiguous or fast-scaling environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including ability to explain trade-offs clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for Kubernetes infrastructure running on bare metal.
• Set clear goals and execution plans for the team and ensure reliable delivery.
• Partner with senior ICs and adjacent teams on roadmap for cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, reliability, observability, and automation.
• Improve operational excellence across incident response, on-call health, root-cause analysis, and service ownership.
• Drive engineering practices for safe change management, testing, rollout quality, and production readiness.
• Support design and operation of platform capabilities for provisioning, patching, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting of Kubernetes clusters.
• Build 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 work into clear business and customer value.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Production infrastructure

Incident response

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring & mentorship

Go

Python

Tools

Go

Python

Job description

CoreWeave is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team building and operating Kubernetes infrastructure on bare metal. This role focuses on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for AI/ML workloads, partnering with platform, networking, compute, and product teams to deliver durable systems.

You will guide the team through lifecycle management, upgrades, observability, and automation, while mentoring engineers and driving cross-functional collaboration for rapid,