Production Infrastructure Lead (Kubernetes & Scale)

Socket.dev; New York, Sunnyvale, Bellevue (NY, CA, WA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) match

Flexible PTO

Tuition reimbursement

ESPP

Mental wellness benefits

Parental leave

On-site lunch

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead a team of infrastructure and systems engineers. You will have the opportunity to shape the team from its earliest stage and translate an evolving charter into a clear, sustainable operating model.

In partnership with technical leadership, you will establish how the team delivers, operates, and grows while remaining accountable for its people, priorities, and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or production engineering, including people leadership.
• Experience managing engineers responsible for production systems with meaningful reliability requirements.
• Experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Improved operational practices such as on-call, SLOs, observability, incident response, or change management.
• Turned ambiguous ownership or cross-team dependencies into clear plans and delivered outcomes.
• Guided technical tradeoffs and worked effectively with senior engineers without becoming the team's sole architect.
• Experience hiring, coaching, managing performance, and communicating priorities and risks to technical teams and senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers.
• Set clear priorities, roadmaps, ownership, and measures of success.
• Define clear decision-making, escalation, and on-call practices as the team grows.
• Partner with technical leaders to guide architecture and deliver reliable infrastructure and automation.
• Establish strong practices for testing, observability, safe changes, incident response, and on-call.
• Use operational and delivery data to identify risks and guide investment.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies and create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

SRE practices

Hiring & coaching

Tools

GitOps

Observability tools

CI/CD

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead a team of infrastructure and systems engineers. You will have the opportunity to shape the team from its earliest stage and translate an evolving charter into a clear, sustainable operating model.

In partnership with technical leadership, you will establish how the team delivers, operates, and grows while remaining accountable for its people, priorities, and outcomes.