Engineering Manager, Launch & Sandboxes

Coreweave; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid Parental Leave

Tuition Reimbursement

ESPP

Job summary

CoreWeave, The Essential Cloud for AI, is hiring an Engineering Manager for the Launch & Sandboxes team in the US. You will lead the team responsible for sandboxed GPU-enabled environments and job submission/compute orchestration, shaping strategy, and delivering reliable software across Kubernetes, HPC nodes, and cloud VMs.

You will partner with product management, drive architecture discussions, mentor engineers toward leadership, and champion an AI-forward culture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering management experience leading infra or platform teams.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with backend systems depth.
• Technical fluency in Go, Python, and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing distributed systems in production.
• Experience balancing product delivery with technical health (tech debt, reliability, on-call).
• Experience partnering with product managers to shape and prioritize a roadmap.
• Track record of growing engineers across levels.
• Strong communication with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity in new product areas.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Launch & Sandboxes engineering team end-to-end and align with product strategy.
• Collaborate with product management to prioritize across competing initiatives.
• Unblock engineers on cross-team dependencies and ensure reliable delivery.
• Participate in architecture discussions around container orchestration, authentication, and billing infrastructure.
• Grow engineers into autonomous leaders and technical decision‑makers.
• Champion AI-forward tooling and developer experience within the team.

Skills

Engineering management

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Roadmap planning

People development

Stakeholder communication

Ambiguity navigation

Tools

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Job description

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.

What You’ll Do

You’ll join CoreWeave’s IaaS organization as the Engineering Manager for the Launch & Sandboxes team. The team owns two connected areas: Sandboxes, cloud execution environments that let practitioners run code in isolated, GPU-enabled containers, and Launch, the services and integrations that support job submission, compute orchestration, and HPC schedulers.

You’ll lead the engineering work that connects developer workflows to the compute where AI workloads run. The systems span Kubernetes clusters, HPC nodes, and cloud virtual machines, and are designed to make it easier for customers to launch, manage, and scale workloads across CoreWeave’s infrastructure.

About the role

As the Engineering Manager for Launch & Sandboxes, you'll be involved in the full product lifecycle, from ideation and roadmap shaping through delivery and being available for customers. Your day-to-day will involve partnering with product management to prioritize across competing initiatives, unblocking your engineers on cross-team dependencies, and ensuring the team ships reliably while managing technical debt. You'll need to be technically fluent enough to participate in architecture discussions around container orchestration, distributed authentication, and billing infrastructure, and you're not afraid to get your hands dirty when the team needs it.

At the same time, your primary focus is growing your engineers into autonomous leaders and technical decision-makers. We're an AI-forward organization that embraces LLM-based coding tools and agentic workflows to accelerate development, and we'd expect you to champion that culture within your team. This role carries a heavy customer and user focus: you'll stay close to how ML practitioners use the product and make sure that perspective drives your team's priorities.

Like any role at a hyperscaler, this comes with high accountability and ownership. You'll own your team's outcomes end-to-end, from roadmap commitments through production reliability. We expect engineering managers to make hard prioritization calls, hold the bar on engineering quality, and build teams that operate with autonomy and urgency.

Who You Are

• 3+ years of engineering management experience, with a track record of shipping infrastructure or platform products

• 5+ years of software engineering experience prior to management, with backend systems depth

• Technical fluency in Go, Python, and Kubernetes (you won't write code daily, but you need to review PRs, unblock architectural decisions, and understand production incidents)

• Experience managing teams that own distributed systems in production

• Demonstrated ability to balance product delivery with technical health (managing tech debt, reliability, on‑call)

• Experience partnering with product managers to shape and prioritize a roadmap

• Track record of growing engineers across levels

• Strong communication skills with both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, especially in newer product areas where scope is still being defined

Preferred

• Experience with ML infrastructure, ML platforms, or developer tools for data scientists

• Familiarity with compute orchestration, job scheduling, or container isolation technologies

• Experience managing teams through a product area transition (e.g., early‑stage to growth, or post‑acquisition integration)

• Background in HPC or scientific computing environments

• Experience with billing systems, metering, or usage‑based pricing infrastructure

• Founding experience or early‑stage background where you took a product from idea to the hands of users

Wondering if you're a good fit?

We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams, even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we've found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we'd love to talk.

• You're energized by building a team around a product area that is still finding its shape, not just maintaining something mature.

• You care about developer experience and understand that infrastructure teams succeed when their users actually love the tools.

• You've managed through organizational complexity before and you're comfortable navigating cross‑team dependencies and shifting priorities.

Why Us?

We work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper‑growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core

• Act Like an Owner

• Empower Employees

• Deliver Best‑in‑Class Client Experiences

• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

The base pay and target total cash for this position range from $165,000.00 - $242,000.00, accordingly. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position includes a discretionary bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US‑based offerings for full‑time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long‑term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family‑Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full‑service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [e-mail].

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.