Senior Observability Platform Lead

Coreweave; New York (NY); On-site; USD 188,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

ESPP

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible PTO

Catered Lunch

Childcare Support

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. You will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure.

You will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale.
• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads.
• Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting in distributed systems.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault‑tolerant design.
• Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers.
• Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade‑offs involving scale, resilience, and cost.
• Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption.
• Experience hiring and managing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define strategy and roadmap for observability platform across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines.
• Drive platform reliability and performance improvements across the observability stack.
• Guide architectural decisions and promote best practices in instrumentation and production visibility.
• Partner with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and adoption.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Observability platforms

Reliability engineering

Telemetry scaling

Distributed systems

Platform collaboration

Hiring teams

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. You will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure.

You will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation