Senior Backend Engineer — Core API & Infra

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch daily

Job summary

CoreWeave, based in Livingston, NJ, is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and evolve core backend systems that power their platform. The role involves ownership of internal tooling and enhancing a custom job scheduler for reliability and performance.

You will collaborate with multiple teams, define API standards, and contribute to scalable solutions. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in backend systems and a strong proficiency in programming languages like Go and Python. This position includes a competitive salary range of $165,000 to $242,000.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience designing and evolving APIs (REST, GraphQL, and/or gRPC).

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the core backend systems and shared infrastructure.
• Own and improve internal schema and code generation tooling.
• Work on and extend custom job scheduler to improve reliability.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Distributed systems design

API design (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)

Proficient in Go, Python

Concurrency and parallelism experience

System performance optimization

Job description

CoreWeave, based in Livingston, NJ, is seeking a Backend Engineer to build and evolve core backend systems that power their platform. The role involves ownership of internal tooling and enhancing a custom job scheduler for reliability and performance.

You will collaborate with multiple teams, define API standards, and contribute to scalable solutions. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in backend systems and a strong proficiency in programming languages like Go and Python. This position includes a competitive salary range of $165,000 to $242,000.