Senior Kubernetes Infra Engineer (Bare-Metal Focus)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Equity Awards

ESPP

Flexible PTO

Parental Leave

Job summary

CoreWeave is hiring for a role focused on building automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal. You’ll write in Golang, Python, and Bash, and contribute to day-2 operations, fault-tolerant architectures, and reliability improvements.

The team emphasizes collaboration, strong documentation, and on-call readiness to support production clusters, with a base salary in the six-figure range and comprehensive benefits.

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

Debug Kubernetes clusters

Golang

Bash

Python

Linux troubleshooting

Ansible

DevOps practices

On-call rotation

Documentation

Tools

kubeadm

Cluster API

Kubespray

Ansible

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

CoreWeave is hiring for a role focused on building automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal. You’ll write in Golang, Python, and Bash, and contribute to day-2 operations, fault-tolerant architectures, and reliability improvements.

The team emphasizes collaboration, strong documentation, and on-call readiness to support production clusters, with a base salary in the six-figure range and comprehensive benefits.