Senior Kubernetes Platform Engineer

CoreWeave; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Engineer to design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure and shared services. This hands-on role spans software, systems, and reliability engineering, from design through production operation.

You will own provisioning, upgrades, testing, and on-call for the systems you build. There are two levels; Senior Engineer II may involve setting technical direction and leading architecture for long-term evolution.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, DevOps, or equivalent practical experience.
• Operated production Kubernetes clusters or Kubernetes-based platforms at scale.
• Strong Linux and systems fundamentals; able to troubleshoot across networking, storage, containers, and distributed services.
• Able to build production-quality software and automation in Go, Python, or a comparable language.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or GitOps tools.
• Knowledge of observability, SLOs, incident response, fault-tolerant design, and safe production changes.

Responsibilities

• Own Kubernetes infrastructure and services across their full lifecycle, including provisioning, upgrades, fleet-scale change, and failure recovery.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, upgrades, maintenance, and recovery workflows.
• Improve testing, observability, delivery safety, and operational readiness.
• Hardware procurement, supply chain alignment, and expansion + buildout management.
• Troubleshoot complex production failures and turn learned lessons into durable fixes.
• Define service health measures and drive reliability improvements using operational data.
• Reduce recurring toil through software, automation, and self-service capabilities.
• Review technical work, document important decisions, and mentor other engineers.
• Work across engineering teams to solve shared infrastructure problems.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go/Python

Linux

GitOps

SRE/DevOps

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Prometheus

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Engineer to design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure and shared services. This hands-on role spans software, systems, and reliability engineering, from design through production operation.

You will own provisioning, upgrades, testing, and on-call for the systems you build. There are two levels; Senior Engineer II may involve setting technical direction and leading architecture for long-term evolution.