Senior AI Platform Engineer: Kubernetes Scheduling & Go

Coreweave; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with generous employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch daily

Equity awards

Tuition Reimbursement

ESPP

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) for the AI Workload Orchestration Platform to build and operate a Kubernetes-native platform for AI workloads at scale. You will own components end-to-end, drive reliability, and help scale the system with customer demand and complexity.

You will work across scheduling frameworks like Kueue, Volcano, and Ray, and collaborate with CKs, infrastructure, and managed inference teams to ensure clean interfaces and strong production practice.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering in distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience building production Go services; Python or C++ is a plus.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, APIs, controllers, and production operations.
• Experience with scheduling, resource management, or quota-based systems.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native services for AI workload orchestration and scheduling.
• Own platform components end-to-end, including design, implementation, testing, and on-call support.
• Improve scheduling latency, cluster utilization, and workload reliability through metrics-driven engineering.
• Contribute to architectural discussions across services and influence design decisions within the platform.
• Work closely with adjacent teams (CKS, infrastructure, managed inference) to ensure clean interfaces and integrations.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise the quality bar for code, design, and operations.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

On-call rotations

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) for the AI Workload Orchestration Platform to build and operate a Kubernetes-native platform for AI workloads at scale. You will own components end-to-end, drive reliability, and help scale the system with customer demand and complexity.

You will work across scheduling frameworks like Kueue, Volcano, and Ray, and collaborate with CKs, infrastructure, and managed inference teams to ensure clean interfaces and strong production practice.