Senior AI Workload Orchestration Engineer (Kubernetes)

Coreweave; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Equity awards

ESPP

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) match

Flexible PTO

Lunch provided

Casual work environment

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) to help design, build, and operate a Kubernetes-native platform for admitting, scheduling, and running AI workloads at scale. You will own platform components end-to-end, drive reliability, and collaborate across teams to improve scheduling latency and cluster utilization.

You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions while working with cutting-edge frameworks like Kueue, Volcano, and Ray.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Strong experience building production systems in Go (Python or C++ a plus).
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, APIs, controllers, and operating services in production.
• Experience working with scheduling, resource management, or quota-based systems.
• Proven ability to improve system reliability and performance using data and operational metrics.
• Comfortable owning services in production and participating in on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native services for AI workload orchestration and scheduling.
• Own one or more 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

APIs

On-call

Tools

Kueue

Volcano

Ray

Kubeflow

Argo Workflows

Slurm on Kubernetes

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) to help design, build, and operate a Kubernetes-native platform for admitting, scheduling, and running AI workloads at scale. You will own platform components end-to-end, drive reliability, and collaborate across teams to improve scheduling latency and cluster utilization.

You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions while working with cutting-edge frameworks like Kueue, Volcano, and Ray.