Senior Compute Engineer (Kubernetes & Bare Metal)

CoreWeave; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) with match

Tuition Reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

CoreWeave, an AI-first cloud leader in Sunnyvale, seeks a Senior Engineer to build fault-tolerant infrastructure that underpins internal processes and our customer platform. You’ll automate provisioning of Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal and implement reliable tooling with Python, Golang, and Bash.

You’ll contribute to day-2 operations, upgrades, and on-call rotations while advancing automation, testing, and monitoring using Grafana. Excellent Linux and Ansible expertise are valued.

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.

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

Golang

Python

Bash

Linux troubleshooting

Ansible

DevOps tooling

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Documentation

On-call rota

Tools

kubeadm

Cluster API

Kubeception

Kubespray

AWX

Job description

CoreWeave, an AI-first cloud leader in Sunnyvale, seeks a Senior Engineer to build fault-tolerant infrastructure that underpins internal processes and our customer platform. You’ll automate provisioning of Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal and implement reliable tooling with Python, Golang, and Bash.

You’ll contribute to day-2 operations, upgrades, and on-call rotations while advancing automation, testing, and monitoring using Grafana. Excellent Linux and Ansible expertise are valued.