Enterprise Data Architect – Lakehouse & Data Governance

Coreweave; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance (100

Company-paid life insurance

Voluntary life insurance

Disability insurance (short & long)

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition reimbursement

Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)

Mental wellness benefits

Family-forming support (Carrot)

Paid parental leave

Childcare support (Kinside)

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch in office/data centers

Casual work environment

Culture of innovation disruption

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to define and drive the architecture of its enterprise data ecosystem. You will establish modeling, semantic layers, governance, and platform standards to enable scalable, trusted data products while leading cross-domain architecture with senior engineers.

You will mentor engineers, set durable data contracts, and drive architecture reviews to ensure alignment with CoreWeave’s lakehouse strategy and business goals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or data architecture roles.
• Experience setting technical direction for data systems across multiple teams or domains.
• Expertise in enterprise analytical modeling (dimensional, Data Vault, governed metrics).
• Design and operate lakehouse/streamhouse architectures using Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Paimon, or Fluss.
• Advanced knowledge of OLAP, query, processing, and ingestion systems (StarRocks, ClickHouse, Trino, Spark, Flink, Kafka).
• Strong SQL and production-grade programming in Python, Scala, Java, or Rust.

Responsibilities

• Define the company-wide strategy for data modeling, semantic layers, enterprise metrics, and reusable data products.
• Set architectural standards for the lakehouse: data organization, schemas, metadata, governance, and serving patterns.
• Design scalable frameworks for data quality, lineage, observability, access control, and policy enforcement.
• Lead architecture of cross-domain data systems spanning operational, financial, product, people, and infrastructure data.
• Establish durable data contracts, system boundaries, and reusable engineering patterns across teams.
• Identify and resolve systemic performance, reliability, and scalability constraints across the data ecosystem.
• Lead architecture reviews for high-impact initiatives and ensure alignment with platform strategy.
• Evaluate and standardize core data technologies across processing, orchestration, cataloging, modeling, and metadata management.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the quality of system design and technical decision-making across the organization.

Skills

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Data architecture

Analytical modeling

SQL

Python

Scala/Java/Rust

Governance capabilities

Leadership

Cross-domain architecture

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Delta Lake

Apache Hudi

Apache Flink

Kafka

Spark

Trino

ClickHouse

StarRocks

Apache Paimon

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to define and drive the architecture of its enterprise data ecosystem. You will establish modeling, semantic layers, governance, and platform standards to enable scalable, trusted data products while leading cross-domain architecture with senior engineers.

You will mentor engineers, set durable data contracts, and drive architecture reviews to ensure alignment with CoreWeave’s lakehouse strategy and business goals.