Senior Observability Platforms Lead

CoreWeave; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

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.

You will partner with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility, balancing scalability,

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale.
• 4+ years of engineering management leading senior engineers and tech leads.
• Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers.
• Experience with reliability concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, and error budgets.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team responsible for observability across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines.
• Define strategy and roadmap; drive platform reliability and performance improvements.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and visibility.
• Operate cloud-native infrastructure including Kubernetes environments.

Skills

Observability platforms

Metrics logs traces

Distributed systems

Performance engineering

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Kubernetes

Incident management

Leadership

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.

You will partner with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility, balancing scalability,