Senior Compute Engineer - Kubernetes on Bare Metal

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Equity awards

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Engineer in Compute Services to build fault-tolerant infrastructure that supports internal processes and our customer platform. You’ll design and maintain automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal using Python, Golang, and Bash, and participate in a predictable on-call rotation.

You’ll modernize cluster reliability, troubleshoot advanced issues, and contribute to testing and documentation.

Qualifications

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

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

Debugging Kubernetes

Golang

Bash

Python

Linux

Ansible

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

On-call support

Documentation

Analytics

Collaboration

Tools

kubeadm

Cluster API

Kubeception

Kubespray

Python tooling

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Engineer in Compute Services to build fault-tolerant infrastructure that supports internal processes and our customer platform. You’ll design and maintain automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal using Python, Golang, and Bash, and participate in a predictable on-call rotation.

You’ll modernize cluster reliability, troubleshoot advanced issues, and contribute to testing and documentation.