Senior Linux Kernel Engineer for Kubernetes & Containers

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

CoreWeave seeks a Senior Software Engineer on the Systems Engineering team to be the kernel expert tracing complex failures from Kubernetes/pods back to the Linux kernel, fixing them at the source and upstreaming when appropriate. You’ll work at the boundary of kernel internals and container runtimes, debugging crashes and edge cases at fleet scale.

You’ll collaborate with hardware, platform, and product teams to ensure production readiness, and you’ll contribute to diagnostics, tooling, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Linux kernel engineering, systems‑level development, or a closely adjacent discipline.

Responsibilities

• Debug and fix complex issues that span the kernel/Kubernetes boundary — pods stuck or evicted for unclear reasons, cgroup memory/CPU accounting that doesn’t add up, namespace or mount issues that only manifest under real workloads at scale.

Skills

Kernel engineering

C programming

Kernel internals

cgroups & namespaces

Debugging tools (crash, gdb, kdump)

Container/Kubernetes stack (containerd

Cross‑domain debugging

Tools

Crash

GDB

KDUMP

containerd

runc

kubelet

CRI

Job description

CoreWeave seeks a Senior Software Engineer on the Systems Engineering team to be the kernel expert tracing complex failures from Kubernetes/pods back to the Linux kernel, fixing them at the source and upstreaming when appropriate. You’ll work at the boundary of kernel internals and container runtimes, debugging crashes and edge cases at fleet scale.

You’ll collaborate with hardware, platform, and product teams to ensure production readiness, and you’ll contribute to diagnostics, tooling, and