Observability Engineering Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Tuition Reimbursement

Equity awards

Parental Leave

ESPP enrollment

Mental Wellness benefits

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. You will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure.

You will partner with infrastructure, platform, security, and application teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale.
• 2+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads.
• Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, or alerting in distributed systems.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design.
• Experience scaling telemetry systems including storage backends, and query layers.
• Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and roadmap for observability platforms across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines.
• Lead and scale the observability engineering team, guiding architectural decisions and instrumentation improvements.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, security, and application teams to drive platform adoption and reliability.
• Own platform reliability, performance improvements, and cost considerations for observability infrastructure.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Observability platforms

Reliability engineering

Telemetry systems

Distributed systems

Team leadership

Hiring engineers

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. You will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure.

You will partner with infrastructure, platform, security, and application teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility,