Senior Compute Engineer: Kubernetes & Bare Metal

CoreWeave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 153,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Discretionary bonus

Equity awards

Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Job summary

CoreWeave is hiring a Senior Engineer for Compute Services to build fault-tolerant infrastructure that supports our internal processes and customer platform. If you’re passionate about GitOps, KubeOps, and DevOps—this role fits you well.

You will design and maintain tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal, using Python, Golang, and Bash, and participate in a two-month on-call cycle to support production services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience provisioning Kubernetes using tools such as kubeadm, Cluster API, Kubeception, Kubespray, or similar.
• Demonstrated ability debugging complex kubernetes cluster issues and carrying out upgrades.
• Proficiency in Golang, Bash, and Python.
• Advanced Linux OS troubleshooting skills.
• Extensive experience with Ansible.
• Advanced DevOps experience (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively on shared codebases.
• Excellent documentation skills and high attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation to support production services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal.
• Use Python, Golang, and Bash to create tooling and go operators.
• Perform day 2 lifecycle tasks and maintenance on running clusters.
• Identify gaps and implement fault-tolerant architectures.
• Optimize reliability using the Grafana ecosystem.
• Design automated testing to validate build quality and stability.
• Participate in an on-call rotation every two months serving as point of contact.

Skills

Kubernetes provisioning

Kubernetes troubleshooting

Golang

Python

Bash

Linux

Ansible

DevOps tooling

GitOps

On-call experience

Tools

kubeadm

Cluster API

Kubeception

Kubespray

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

CoreWeave is hiring a Senior Engineer for Compute Services to build fault-tolerant infrastructure that supports our internal processes and customer platform. If you’re passionate about GitOps, KubeOps, and DevOps—this role fits you well.

You will design and maintain tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal, using Python, Golang, and Bash, and participate in a two-month on-call cycle to support production services.