Senior Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure Performance Insights & Observability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

Voluntary life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Mental Wellness Benefits

Family-Forming support

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Engineer to drive the Benchmarking & Performance team, building observability and performance insights across AI infrastructure. You will turn telemetry into real-time signals for engineers, product teams, and executives, spanning GPUs, interconnect fabrics, and distributed training workloads.

This role focuses on near real-time detection and diagnosis rather than dashboards, with opportunities to shape data lake schemas and time-series pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building distributed systems or observability tooling.
• Strong coding in Python or Go; C++ is a plus.
• Hands-on Kubernetes at production scale; CI/CD experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems for continuous health and performance assessment of AI infrastructure (GPU utilization, interconnect fabrics, distributed training).
• Own time-series and metrics infrastructure; optimize PromQL/MetricsQL queries for alerting and trend analysis.
• Develop telemetry pipelines for hardware and workloads across data centers and clusters.
• Design the performance data lake with Iceberg/Parquet/Avro schemas, tiering, and schema evolution.
• Profile and tune query engines to meet strict latency/Freshness SLAs; benchmark infrastructure itself.
• Build self-service BI views (Grafana/Looker) as downstream outputs when necessary.

Job description

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 this role

We're looking for a Senior Engineer to be a driving force on CoreWeave's Benchmarking & Performance team, with a focus on building the performance insights and observability systems that make our AI infrastructure legible at every layer, from individual GPUs and NVLink/InfiniBand fabrics up through distributed training and inference workloads. You will own how we detect, diagnose, and surface performance signals across every data center in our global infrastructure, turning billions of raw telemetry events into real-time insight that engineers, product teams, and executives can act on with confidence.

This is not a straightforward data engineering or BI role. The role will focus on building the observability and insight tooling that lets us answer, in near real time, whether a GPU fleet, a fabric, or a training run is performing the way it should, and why it isn't when it's not. If you're energized by building the systems that turn raw infrastructure telemetry into trusted, actionable performance intelligence, and you want that work to sit closer to the hardware and the workload than to a dashboard, this role was built for you.

What you'll do

• Performance Insights & Observability - Design and build the systems that continuously assess AI infrastructure health and performance: GPU utilization and efficiency, interconnect (NVLink, InfiniBand, RoCE) fabric behavior, distributed training and inference throughput, and hardware degradation signals. Build the detection and diagnosis logic that surfaces anomalies and regressions before they become incidents, not just dashboards that report on them after the fact.
• Time-Series & Metrics Infrastructure - Own and extend our time-series database (TSDB) layer as the backbone of real-time observability. Write and optimize PromQL/MetricsQL queries that power alerting, anomaly detection, and trend analysis across thousands of GPUs and hundreds of benchmark runs. Bridge streaming metrics and batch-analytical workloads so engineers get sub-second answers during live incidents and analysts get complete historical context for root cause work.
• Fabric & GPU Telemetry - Build and validate the pipelines and metrics that make network fabric and GPU-level behavior observable and comparable across racks, clusters, and hardware generations, including gray failure detection, congestion and error-rate signals, and health scoring that holds up under audit.
• Data Lake Architecture (in support of insight work) - Design and build the performance data lake that underpins the above: table formats (Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Avro), hot/cold tiering, and schema evolution for latency distributions, throughput metrics, GPU utilization, cost-per-token, and hardware health signals. This is foundational infrastructure, not the end product.
• Query Optimization & Performance - Profile and tune query engines against columnar and time-series stores so that the observability layer meets its own strict P99 latency and freshness SLAs. Benchmark the benchmarking infrastructure itself.
• BI & Reporting (secondary) - Where needed, build self-service views (Grafana, Looker, or similar) for engineers, product managers, and executives, but as a downstream output of the insight and observability work above, not the primary deliverable.

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience building distributed systems, observability platforms, or performance engineering tooling, ideally for infrastructure or ML systems rather than general-purpose BI.
• Strong coding in Python or Go (C++ a plus) and deep familiarity with networked systems, GPU infrastructure, and performance analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes at production scale, CI/CD, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) used to monitor and diagnose infrastructure, not just report on it.
• Working knowledge of time-series databases and fluency in PromQL or MetricsQL for building real-time alerting and anomaly detection, not only historical dashboards.
• Familiarity with data lake architectures and modern table formats (Iceberg, Parquet, Avro) sufficient to support an insights platform, though this is not the primary skill this role is hiring for.
• Comfortable working close to hardware and workload behavior: GPU utilization patterns, interconnect fabric health, distributed training/inference performance characteristics.
• Strong communicator comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams and external partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with time-series databases, LSM-based storage engines, or custom telemetry pipelines.
• Experience running MLPerf submissions or similar large-scale audited benchmarks.
• Contributions to OSS projects such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Trino, llm-d, vLLM, or PyTorch.
• Direct experience benchmarking or monitoring large GPU fleets or multi-region clusters.
• Experience with CUDA kernels, NCCL/SHARP, RDMA/NUMA, or GPU interconnect topologies.
• Familiarity with data cataloging, lineage tools, or data governance frameworks.

Why CoreWeave?

Own the data that tells the truth about performance. You'll build the analytical foundations the industry relies on to measure—and achieve—state-of-the-art results, working hand-in-hand with world‑class partners and communities. If you love turning vast streams of telemetry into clear, trusted insights that move markets and drive engineering excellence, we'd love to talk.

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper‑growth that you will not want to miss out on. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best‑in‑Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take off, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

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.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US‑based offerings for full‑time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• 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