Engineering Manager - Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure

Engg; New York, Sunnyvale, Bellevue (NY, CA, WA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; 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

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead a team of infrastructure and systems engineers. You will shape the team from its earliest stage, translating an evolving charter into a clear operating model and accountable delivery.

You will set priorities, define on-call practices, and partner with leadership to guide architecture and automation. The role emphasizes building reliable infrastructure, testing, observability, and continuous improvement, with a focus on collaboration

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or production engineering, including people leadership.
• Managed engineers responsible for production systems with meaningful reliability requirements.
• Experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Improved operational practices such as on-call, SLOs, observability, incident response, or change management.
• Turned ambiguous ownership or cross-team dependencies into clear plans and delivered outcomes.
• Able to guide technical tradeoffs and work with senior engineers without becoming the team\'s sole architect.
• Experience hiring, coaching, managing performance, and communicating priorities and risks to technical teams and senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers.
• Set clear priorities, roadmaps, ownership, and measures of success.
• Define clear decision-making, escalation, and on-call practices as the team grows.
• Partner with technical leaders to guide architecture and deliver reliable infrastructure and automation.
• Establish strong practices for testing, observability, safe changes, incident response, and on-call.
• Use operational and delivery data to identify risks and guide investment.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies and create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skills

People leadership

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

On-call practices

Observability

Incident response

Testing

Technical tradeoffs

Hiring and coaching

Tools

GitOps

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead a team of infrastructure and systems engineers. You will shape the team from its earliest stage, translating an evolving charter into a clear operating model and accountable delivery.

You will set priorities, define on-call practices, and partner with leadership to guide architecture and automation. The role emphasizes building reliable infrastructure, testing, observability, and continuous improvement, with a focus on collaboration