Senior Data Platform Engineer - Weights & Biases

Weights & Biases; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and operate an enterprise data platform, with a focus on scalable data pipelines, orchestration, and telemetry. You will partner with software and analytics teams to enable data-informed AI applications and improve data models for large-scale workloads.

You will apply distributed-systems knowledge, design patterns, and production data practices to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across multi-petabyte

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in a technical field.
• At least five years of professional software or data engineering experience.
• Experience designing production data pipelines and distributed processing.
• Experience with dbt, Dagster, or Airflow.
• Strong SQL skills and data warehouse concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable data platforms and pipelines across production systems.
• Develop data transformation and orchestration frameworks with reliability and observability.
• Improve data warehouse performance, modeling, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with software teams on telemetry and instrumentation.
• Define metadata, governance, and semantic models for analytics.
• Support data-powered AI applications and on-call platform support.

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

Data modeling

ETL pipelines

Cloud/AWS

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

dbt

Dagster

Airflow

Job description

CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, acquired Weights & Biases to create the most powerful end‑to‑end platform to develop, deploy, and iterate AI faster. Since 2017, CoreWeave has operated a growing footprint of data centers covering every region of the US and across Europe, and was ranked as one of the TIME100 most influential companies of 2024. By bringing together CoreWeave’s industry-leading cloud infrastructure with the best‑in‑class tools AI practitioners know and love from Weights & Biases, we’re setting a new standard for how AI is built, trained, and scaled.

The integration of our teams and technologies is accelerating our shared mission: to empower developers with the tools and infrastructure they need to push the boundaries of what AI can do. From experiment tracking and model optimization to high‑performance training clusters, agent building, and inference at scale, we’re combining forces to serve the full AI lifecycle — all in one seamless platform.

Weights & Biases has long been trusted by over 1,500 organizations — including AstraZeneca, Canva, Cohere, OpenAI, Meta, Snowflake, Square, Toyota, and Wayve — to build better models, AI agents and applications. Now, as part of CoreWeave, that impact is amplified across a broader ecosystem of AI innovators, researchers, and enterprises.

As we unite under one vision, we’re looking for bold thinkers and agile builders who are excited to shape the future of AI alongside us. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems at the intersection of software, hardware, and AI, there’s never been a more exciting time to join our team.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilities

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will apply advanced knowledge of software engineering, data architecture, distributed systems, and database technologies to design and operate our enterprise data platform. Your responsibilities will include:

• Design and implement scalable data systems and pipelines — 30%: Architect, develop, test, and maintain distributed batch and streaming pipelines that ingest, transform, validate, and deliver structured and semi‑structured data across production systems.
• Develop data transformation and orchestration frameworks — 20%: Build and optimize workflows using technologies such as dbt, Dagster, Airflow, or comparable tools. Establish testing, deployment, dependency-management, data-quality, and observability standards for these workflows.
• Improve data warehouse performance and reliability — 15%: Design data models, schemas, partitioning strategies, and storage patterns for large‑scale analytical workloads. Diagnose and resolve performance, scalability, availability, and cost‑efficiency issues within multi‑petabyte data environments.
• Build product telemetry and data instrumentation — 15%: Partner with software engineering teams to define event schemas and implement reliable logging, telemetry, and instrumentation for web applications, backend services, and distributed systems.
• Develop data catalog and semantic-layer capabilities — 10%: Design metadata, lineage, governance, and semantic-modeling systems that enable consistent business definitions and secure self‑service analytics.
• Support data-powered AI applications — 5%: Establish data interfaces and platform foundations for internal AI applications, including systems that support automated data discovery, workflow assistance, customer-growth analysis, churn-risk modeling, and abuse detection.
• Operate and support the platform — 5%: Monitor production systems, troubleshoot incidents, document operational procedures, and participate in an on‑call rotation after completing the required onboarding and training.

This position requires independent technical judgment to evaluate architectural alternatives, identify system constraints, and select appropriate data structures, algorithms, database designs, and distributed-processing patterns.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a closely related technical or quantitative field involving substantial coursework in Engineering.
• At least five years of progressive professional experience in software engineering, data engineering, data infrastructure, or a closely related occupation.
• Professional experience designing and implementing production data pipelines and distributed data-processing systems.
• Professional experience with data transformation or workflow‑orchestration technologies such as dbt, Dagster, Airflow, or comparable platforms.
• Professional experience designing data models, schemas, and storage strategies for large‑scale analytical databases or cloud data warehouses.
• Professional experience programming in Python, Go, Java, Scala, or another general‑purpose programming language used to build production data systems.
• Professional experience with SQL, database performance optimization, data‑quality testing, and production monitoring.
• Knowledge of software‑engineering practices, including version control, automated testing, code review, continuous integration, deployment automation, and technical documentation.
• Knowledge of web‑application telemetry, event instrumentation, logging systems, APIs, and distributed‑service architecture.
• Ability to communicate technical designs, risks, and tradeoffs to engineering, data science, analytics, and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating multi‑petabyte data platforms or other high‑volume, business‑critical data systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and data services on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with data catalogs, metadata management, lineage systems, governance frameworks, or semantic layers.
• Knowledge of machine‑learning workflows, model‑development terminology, or the data requirements of production AI applications.
• Experience supporting internal platform users, responding to technical questions, and converting user feedback into platform improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a self‑directed environment, identify opportunities for improvement, and collaborate across engineering and business teams.

Why Us?

About

We work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper‑growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best‑in‑Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our U.S‑based offerings; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company‑paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long‑term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family‑Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full‑service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTOCatered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [e-mail].

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• 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.