Senior Optical Backbone Engineer

Coreweave; Michigan; On-site; USD 165,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Equity awards

401(k) with company match

Bonus program

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a senior Optical Network Engineer to design, build, and operate our global optical backbone. You will work across dark-fiber, DWDM and coherent systems, ensuring capacity, resiliency and seamless integration with IP layers.

You will mentor engineers, deploy new fiber spans, and drive automation across production environments, partnering with Nokia and Ciena platforms to scale our backbone.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating large-scale optical networks.
• Experience with DWDM systems across dark-fiber infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of optical transmission, coherent optics, and multi-vendor environments.
• Proficient in troubleshooting optical impairments and network incidents.
• Experience with scripting or programming to automate network tasks.
• Understanding of IP backbones and how optical and IP layers interact.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer and operate long-haul, metro, and data-center optical networks.
• Engineer DWDM systems across dark-fiber infrastructure.
• Plan amplification, regeneration, wavelength allocation, and optical power budgets.
• Deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot Nokia, Ciena and other optical platforms.
• Commission new fiber spans, wavelengths, and optical systems.
• Analyze span loss, reflectance, dispersion, OSNR, Q-factor, BER.
• Develop automation tools to scale optical networks.
• Mentor engineers and help set technical standards.

Skills

Optical network design

DWDM systems

Dark-fiber networks

Troubleshooting optical impairments

Python or scripting

IP backbone understanding

Multi-vendor experience

BGP/IS-IS routing knowledge

Tools

Ciena

Nokia

Waveserver/6500

Roadms

EDFAs/Raman amplification

Coherent optics

OTDR

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a senior Optical Network Engineer to design, build, and operate our global optical backbone. You will work across dark-fiber, DWDM and coherent systems, ensuring capacity, resiliency and seamless integration with IP layers.

You will mentor engineers, deploy new fiber spans, and drive automation across production environments, partnering with Nokia and Ciena platforms to scale our backbone.