Principal Engineer, Secure Distributed Systems

CoreWeave; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership across Security Products. This senior individual‑contributor will define architecture, guide execution across multiple teams, and solve complex distributed‑systems problems in security‑critical infrastructure.

You will design for four‑nines availability, low latency, strong security boundaries, data residency, and multi‑region deployment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of production software experience with distributed systems and platform infrastructure.
• Track record as principal-level technical leader across multiple teams or domains.
• Deep expertise in scalability, availability, latency, consistency, and recovery.
• Experience with security-sensitive or reliability-critical services in production.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Go, Java, Rust, C++, or Python.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture for multi-region, high-availability systems with strong security boundaries.
• Guide execution across teams and provide architectural guidance throughout the lifecycle.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across the organization.
• Communicate tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and executive audiences.
• Design and operate API authentication gateways and security token services.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Technical leadership

Security & reliability

Architectural decision-making

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Go

Java

Rust

C++

Python

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership across Security Products. This senior individual‑contributor will define architecture, guide execution across multiple teams, and solve complex distributed‑systems problems in security‑critical infrastructure.

You will design for four‑nines availability, low latency, strong security boundaries, data residency, and multi‑region deployment.