Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure Services

Coreweave; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

ESPP

Flexible PTO

401(k) matching

Catered lunch

Casual work environment

Diverse team culture

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking an experienced data platform engineer to design and operate scalable data infrastructure across our internal and customer-facing services. The role focuses on building managed data solutions, APIs, and reliable streaming capabilities.

You will contribute to a Kubernetes-based data ecosystem, work with Go/Python/Java, and help shape data models and governance while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience operating services in production and at scale.
• Familiar with reliability engineering concepts and fault-tolerant design.
• Understand CAP theorem and data modeling guidelines.
• Experience with distributed datastores and stream processing tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement platform to deliver data via APIs.
• Scale relational data platforms and operate at scale.
• Develop stream processing architecture for scalability and reliability.
• Improve performance, security, reliability of data platforms and on-call duties.
• Establish data access/storage guard rails and ensure regulatory compliance.

Skills

Reliability engineering

CAP theorem

Distributed datastores

Kubernetes

Go/Python/Java

Tools

CockroachDB

TiDB

YDB

Yugabyte

NATS

Kafka

Job description

About the role

The Data Platforms Team serves as the experts on managing data infrastructures for CoreWeave. The data infra includes but is not limited to managed databases, data ingestion, data flow, and data lake and retrieval for CoreWeave and its customers. This team is responsible for the development of use cases, discovery of innovative solutions, automation and operations of our data platform infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the platform to deliver data to teams with a focus on providing managed solutions through APIs
• Participate in operations and scaling of relational data platforms.
• Develop a stream processing architecture and solve for scalability and reliability.
• Improve the performance, security, reliability, and scalability of our data platforms, and related services and participate in the teams on-call rotation.
• Establish guidelines, guard rails for data access and storage for stakeholder teams.
• Ensure compliance with standards for data protection regulation.
• Grow, change, invest in your teammates, be invested-in, share your ideas, listen to others, be curious, have fun, and, above all, be yourself.

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience in a software or infrastructure engineering industry.
• You enjoy helping your colleagues achieve more with less effort.
• You have experience operating services in production and at scale and are versed in reliability engineering concepts such as the different types of testing, progressive deployments, error budgets, the role observability, and fault-tolerant design.
• You understand CAP theorem and concurrency models, can clearly define data models and establish guidelines around data management.
• You’re excited about new research in data structures.
• You’re familiar with one of the distributed NewSQL datastores such as CockroachDB, TiDB, YDB, Yugabyte and/or stream processing tools such as NATS or Kafka.
• You have experience with designing and operating these systems at scale.
• You’re familiar with Kubernetes and have interest or comfortable with using it for event-driven and/or stateful orchestration.
• You’re excited to have the opportunity to contribute to a Kubernetes operator in order to manage data systems.
• You know your way around a Linux distro, shell scripting, and the Linux storage and networking stacks.
• You can transform problems in elastic solutions, decompose them into achievable tasks, and socialize both to your teammates.
• You have a proficiency in Go/Python/Java and you’re interested in contributing to open source.
• You’re excited about being part of a team of diverse perspectives and backgrounds that believe in tackling challenges, growing hand in hand, and winning together.

Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $165,000 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).

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. 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
• 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

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

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.