Lead Architect, Scalable Distributed Security Systems

CoreWeave; New York, California (NY, MO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership across Security Products. This senior IC will define architecture, guide cross-team execution, and tackle complex distributed-systems challenges in security-critical infrastructure.

The role spans architecture through implementation guidance, with emphasis on availability, latency, security boundaries, and production readiness in a multi-region environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish architectural approaches for distributed systems - multi-region operation, including service placement, failover, replication, traffic management, disaster recovery, and regional independence.
• Drive decisions around consistency models, caching, invalidation, propagation, revocation, idempotency, concurrency, and ordering where correctness and security are critical.
• Design for data residency, tenant isolation, trust boundaries, blast-radius reduction, and controlled handling of sensitive security data.
• Define fault-tolerance strategies for dependencies, networks, regions, storage systems, and control-plane components, including graceful degradation and safe recovery.
• Design systems that meet four-nines availability goals while maintaining predictable low latency and high throughput under normal operation, traffic spikes, and partial failures.
• Improve the reliability and operability of critical services through SLOs, error budgets, metrics, logs, traces, audit events, alerting, incident response, and post-incident learning.
• Guide teams through architecture reviews, design reviews, implementation tradeoffs, capacity planning, load testing, performance analysis, and production readiness assessments.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers, develop technical talent, and raise the quality of engineering practice across the organization.
• Communicate architecture, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and executive audiences.
• Lead the design of high-scale authorization systems that support policy authoring, policy evaluation, access-control enforcement, auditability, and integration across many services and tenants.
• Provide technical direction for a Security Token Service, including token issuance, validation, lifecycle management,

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership across Security Products. This senior IC will define architecture, guide cross-team execution, and tackle complex distributed-systems challenges in security-critical infrastructure.

The role spans architecture through implementation guidance, with emphasis on availability, latency, security boundaries, and production readiness in a multi-region environment.