Senior Kubernetes Field Engineer — AI GPU Infra

Coreweave; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Equity awards

ESPP

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Specialist Field Engineer for Kubernetes to design and optimize architectures for demanding AI workloads. You will troubleshoot across the API server, etcd, scheduler, kubelet, and storage on clusters with thousands of GPU nodes, and lead customer workshops and POCs.

This role combines deep technical work with customer-facing leadership and occasional travel, reporting to the Kubernetes platform team at CoreWeave.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building or operating large-scale distributed systems, with Kubernetes focus.
• Experience writing Kubernetes operators or controllers in Go or Rust.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and RBAC/webhooks.

Responsibilities

• Design Kubernetes architectures for complex customers.
• Troubleshoot problems spanning API server, etcd, scheduler, kubelet, container runtime, CNI, network, and storage across GPU clusters.
• Find product gaps and help engineering teams address them.
• Lead customer overviews, proofs of concept, and workshops, with travel.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

RBAC & webhooks

Helm / GitOps

Observability

Customer communication

Education

B.S. in CS

Tools

Argo CD

Flux

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Specialist Field Engineer for Kubernetes to design and optimize architectures for demanding AI workloads. You will troubleshoot across the API server, etcd, scheduler, kubelet, and storage on clusters with thousands of GPU nodes, and lead customer workshops and POCs.

This role combines deep technical work with customer-facing leadership and occasional travel, reporting to the Kubernetes platform team at CoreWeave.