Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience

CoreWeave; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 227,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with generous employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Mental Wellness Benefits

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical strategy for Developer Experience. The role requires 10+ years in software engineering with deep knowledge in Kubernetes and building scalable distributed systems.

Key responsibilities include defining developer tooling strategies, mentoring engineers, and tackling high-complexity software problems. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and a proven track record in leading technical initiatives.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $227,000 to $303,000, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including designing large-scale production software.
• Proven ability to define multi-year technical strategy.
• Strong experience debugging complex production issues.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy for Developer Experience across systems and tooling.
• Architect and evolve core services and APIs.
• Mentor senior engineers and improve technical quality across teams.

Skills

Proficiency in Go

Distributed systems design

Kubernetes expertise

High-quality production services

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD tools

APIs

SDKs

Job description

Overview

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 infrastructure performance with technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.

About The Team

The Developer Experience team owns the services, systems, and developer-facing capabilities that enable every engineer at CoreWeave to build and ship software faster, more safely, and with greater confidence. Our scope spans the full developer lifecycle, including build infrastructure, test systems, delivery workflows, internal developer tooling, and agentic AI capabilities that redefine how engineers move from idea to production. We operate at the scale of one of the world’s largest GPU clouds, which means our build, test, and delivery systems must handle extreme compute throughput, heterogeneous workloads, and the reliability demands of an infrastructure platform critical to thousands of engineers.

About The Role

This is a principal-level software engineering leadership role for an engineer who will define the long-term technical direction for Developer Experience across CoreWeave. You will operate across team boundaries, own the hardest software design and architecture problems in developer productivity, and shape the services, APIs, abstractions, and engineering standards that enable the organization to scale. Kubernetes is central to how CoreWeave’s ecosystem operates.

This role is ideal for someone who leads with deep software engineering skill first: someone who has built large-scale production software, designed distributed systems that hold up under real-world complexity, and knows how to turn developer productivity problems into elegant, durable software solutions. You should be equally comfortable setting technical strategy, writing and reviewing high-quality code, and guiding other senior engineers through ambiguous architectural decisions.

What You'll Do

• Define and drive the technical strategy for Developer Experience across build systems, test systems, delivery platforms, developer tooling, and agentic engineering capabilities.
• Own delivery at scale. Define and drive the strategy for how code goes from commit to production reliably and quickly. Attack bottlenecks — CI/CD throughput, build and test times, deployment safety, rollback speed, and release orchestration — across a large, multi-team codebase.
• Architect and evolve the core services, APIs, SDKs, and software abstractions that power how engineers build, test, deploy, and operate software at CoreWeave.
• Lead cross-team technical initiatives that improve engineering velocity, software quality, and system reliability at organizational scale.
• Solve high-complexity software engineering problems involving distributed systems, service architecture, performance, scalability, concurrency, and failure handling.
• Identify systemic bottlenecks in developer workflows and design durable software solutions that reduce friction without increasing operational complexity.
• Establish technical standards and best practices for code quality, maintainability, testability, observability, and long-term system design across the engineering organization.
• Partner with infrastructure, security, SRE, and product engineering teams to ensure DevEx systems integrate cleanly into the broader technical ecosystem.
• Mentor senior engineers, raise the technical bar across teams, and help grow the next generation of staff-plus engineering leadership.
• Design agent-safe developer interfaces and tooling that integrate LLM-driven workflows into the build, test and code review lifecycle, ensuring automation, AI-assisted tooling and human-in-the-loop systems are first-class, well-governed parts of developer experience.
• Define and maintain the internal developer platforms’ golden paths, service templates, and paved road abstractions that make it easy for engineers to do the right thing by default.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Go, with a track record of shipping high-quality production services in cloud-native environments.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time designing, building, and owning large-scale production software and distributed systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related technical field required.
• Proven ability to define multi-year technical strategy and execute across complex, cross-team domains.
• Deep systems design expertise with strong opinions on API design, service architecture, data models, software abstractions, correctness, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Deep experience debugging complex production issues and reasoning through distributed system behavior, performance bottlenecks, and failure modes.
• Strong experience designing developer-facing software such as internal platforms, APIs, CLIs, SDKs, workflow engines, or other tooling that engineers rely on every day.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and modern software delivery environments, with the ability to make sound architectural decisions in cloud-native systems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions at the organizational level and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A track record of mentoring senior engineers and raising technical quality across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in one or more DevEx domains such as build systems, test infrastructure, CI/CD, remote execution, caching, artifact systems, or developer environments.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale distributed services that support high-throughput engineering workflows.
• Experience building internal developer products with a strong focus on usability, API ergonomics, adoption, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience with AI-native developer tooling, including LLM-integrated workflows, agentic frameworks, MCP-style tooling, or autonomous developer agents with strong safety and governance patterns.
• Prior experience serving as a technical lead or system architect on a software platform with broad organizational impact.
• Kubernetes operator development, CRD design, or control-plane work — especially in the context of managing developer workloads or CI/CD infrastructure on Kubernetes.
• Prior experience at a cloud infrastructure company, hyperscaler, or HPC environment where engineering scale and compute heterogeneity create unique DevEx challenges.
• Familiarity with container runtimes, OCI image standards, or artifact distribution systems at scale.

What Success Looks Like

• Engineering teams move faster because the software systems behind build, test, and delivery are simpler, more reliable, and more scalable.
• The organization has clearer technical standards and better software abstractions for how developer-facing systems are designed and evolved.
• Developer Experience investments translate into measurable improvements in engineering productivity, software quality, and operational excellence.
• CoreWeave continues to build a world-class engineering organization by solving developer productivity problems with strong software engineering discipline and long-term technical vision.

The base salary range for this role is $227,000 to $303,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

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 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

California Applicants

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.