Senior Platform Engineer, Metal Dev

Weights & Biases; United States; Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for

Company-paid Life Insurance

Voluntary supplemental life insurance

Short and long-term disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Mental Wellness Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible, full-service childcare support

401(k) with a generous employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch each day

Casual work environment

Innovative disruption culture

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join its Hardware Engineering Dev team. The role involves managing incident responses, improving system observability, and enhancing operational reliability. Candidates should have 7+ years of experience in cloud operations, proficiency in Go, and familiarity with tools like Prometheus and Grafana. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and flexible PTO.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), or related technical roles.
• Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, GCP) and basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with incident management practices and frameworks (e.g., ITIL, SRE best practices).
• Proficiency with Go.
• Prior experience with Prometheus / Grafana.
• Previous experience deploying containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Served on an on-call rotation supporting production services.

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response efforts by identifying and resolving service disruptions quickly.
• Lead the documentation of incidents, conduct in-depth root cause analysis (RCA).
• Own the development and continuous improvement of incident response playbooks.
• Clearly communicate efforts during incidents to the management and stakeholders.
• Master clear understanding of various services on how they work in production.
• Build a strategy around making core services perform at scale.
• Own system observability and health leveraging tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Lead automation efforts to streamline incident detection and recovery.
• Define and drive KPIs and SLAs for incident management.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to improve platform reliability.
• Design and implement solutions to build operational efficiency and stability.
• Document hardware automation workflows and processes.
• Create CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure smooth operation of server hardware lifecycle.
• Partner with the Fleet Operations Team to design scalable tooling.
• Build out dashboards and alerts for operational troubleshooting.
• Participate in on-call rotation.

Job description

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CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.

About The Role

CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Platform Engineer to join our Hardware Engineering Dev team (Metal Dev). Reporting to the Engineering Manager for Hardware Engineering Dev, you will play a crucial part in the development, deployment, and monitoring of services that manage our bare-metal infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of highly performant and reliable infrastructure solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Incident Management & Support: Lead incident response efforts by identifying and resolving service disruptions quickly, while coaching other junior team members through resolution.
• Incident Management & Support: Lead the documentation of incidents, conduct in-depth root cause analysis (RCA), and drive post-incident reviews (PIRs) to identify systemic issues. Implement long term improvements that would prevent service degradation.
• Incident Management & Support: Own the development and continuous improvement of incident response playbooks ensuring preparedness for a wide range of failure scenarios.
• Incident Management & Support: Clearly communicate efforts during incidents to the management, stakeholders and the cross functional teams, during an incident. Keep clear records of incident activities.
• Incident Management & Support: Master clear understanding of various services on how they work in production as well as build through knowledge of the internals of these services and how they interact with the entire stack.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Build a strategy around making our core services perform at its best at scale. This includes improvements to the services for robustness as well as supportability in production.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Own system observability and health leveraging tools like Prometheus and Grafana, to proactively detect performance bottlenecks and prevent incidents.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Lead automation efforts to streamline incident detection and recovery, minimizing manual intervention.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Define and drive KPIs and SLAs for incident management and ensuring alignment with the organizational reliability objectives.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Collaborate with engineers across teams to improve platform reliability, resilience improvements, and disaster recovery.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Collaborate with upstream communities, including Go and Redfish-based services.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Design and implement solutions to build operational efficiency and stability.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Document hardware automation workflows and processes.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Create CI/CD pipelines.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Ensure smooth operation of all aspects of the server hardware lifecycle, from provisioning to end-of-life, by troubleshooting bugs, automating common tasks, and documenting processes.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Partner with the Fleet Operations Team to design scalable tooling and processes that enables self-service and reduction in escalation overhead.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Build out dashboards and alerts to make efficient operational troubleshooting.
• Operational Support & Reliability: Participate in on-call rotation.

Minimum Qualification

• 7+ years of experience in cloud operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), or related technical roles.
• Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, GCP) and basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with incident management practices and frameworks (e.g., ITIL, SRE best practices).
• Proficiency with Go.
• Prior experience with Prometheus / Grafana.
• Previous experience deploying containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Served on an on-call rotation supporting production services.

The base pay for this position range from $153,000 to $242,000. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position includes a discretionary bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

Our Workplace

While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [e-mail].

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.