Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & Data Infra

CoreWeave; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

ESPP

Job summary

CoreWeave in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform & Infrastructure Engineering. You will own the reliability and performance of a Kubernetes-based data platform, architecting multi-region systems and driving secure, scalable deployments.

Responsibilities include scaling infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD pipelines with Argo CD and GitHub Actions, and delivering production-ready systems with strong uptime guarantees.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or building highly scalable distributed systems with strong software design foundations.
• Data Platform Experience: Familiarity operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads, including distributed processing and streaming frameworks such as Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or Flink.
• Kubernetes & Containerization: Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster design, day-to-day operations, and production troubleshooting across containerized service environments.
• CI/CD Systems: Proven track record building and operating robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions.
• Production Ownership: Experience owning mission-critical systems with high availability (≥99.99% uptime), incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA, and blameless postmortems.
• Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience developing large-scale distributed systems, databases, and backend APIs.
• Multi-Region Architecture: Designing geo-replicated, active-active, multi-region systems with routing and failover strategies.
• Observability: Building full-stack observability with metrics, logging, and tracing using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Helm, Terraform, or Pulumi and automated env provisioning.
• Performance & Capacity: System performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed environments.
• Cloud-Native Security: Implementing security best practices in cloud-native settings (secrets, network policies, vulnerability scanning).

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform.
• Architect and operate highly available, multi-region systems designed for strict uptime and latency standards.
• Scale infrastructure, optimize deployment pipelines, and strengthen our security posture.
• Build, test, and manage scalable systems that are production-ready from day one.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

IaC

Distributed systems

Data platforms

Multi-region

Security

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Spark

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

Flink

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

CoreWeave in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Platform & Infrastructure Engineering. You will own the reliability and performance of a Kubernetes-based data platform, architecting multi-region systems and driving secure, scalable deployments.

Responsibilities include scaling infrastructure, optimizing CI/CD pipelines with Argo CD and GitHub Actions, and delivering production-ready systems with strong uptime guarantees.