Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life insurance

Flexible PTO

401(k) with employer match

Catered lunch each day

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

CoreWeave in Livingston, New Jersey is seeking a technical leader to drive developer experience (DevEx) across its engineering organization. The role will involve setting technical direction for platform subsystems, focusing on architecting and building services that enhance developer productivity and system reliability.

Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, designing scalable solutions, and continuously improving DevEx systems. Ideal candidates should have over 7 years of experience in software development, particularly with knowledge of Kubernetes and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with building production platforms.
• Strong systems design skills and understanding of distributed services.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes for workload management.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for DevEx platform subsystems.
• Design and build core services for developer productivity.
• Mentor and raise the technical quality across the team.

Skills

Software engineering

Systems design

Proficiency in Go

Proficiency in Python

Kubernetes

Cross-functional collaboration

Developer tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Buildkite

Bazel

Job description

About the Team

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™ — the infrastructure that the world's leading AI labs, researchers, and enterprises depend on. The Developer Experience (DevEx) team owns the platform, services, and systems that enable every engineer at CoreWeave to build and ship software faster, more safely, and with greater confidence. Our scope spans the full developer lifecycle: CI (continuous integration) and build infrastructure, test experience, delivery systems, artifact storage and distribution, internal developer platforms, and the agentic AI tooling that is redefining how engineers move from idea to production.

This is a high-leverage technical leadership role. You won't be operating tooling — you'll be designing and building the platforms other engineers depend on every day. The work you do will directly shape developer velocity, system reliability, and the agentic developer experience across a rapidly scaling engineering organization.

What You'll Do

• Set technical direction for key DevEx platform subsystems. Drive architectural decisions across CI pipeline infrastructure, test experience, artifact management, developer environments, and agentic tooling. Lead multi‑quarter initiatives from design through production.
• Design and build the core services that power developer productivity. Build pipeline services, test experience platforms, progressive rollout systems, artifact registries, ephemeral development environments, and the APIs that tie them together.
• Architect and evolve our agentic developer platform. Elevate agentic DevEx capabilities so engineers can delegate development tasks and move faster in an AI‑native way.
• Build for real scale. DevEx systems must reliably serve thousands of application instances and engineering workflows across 40+ data centers with diverse infrastructure profiles.
• Mentor Senior I and mid‑level engineers, own design reviews, establish engineering patterns, and consistently raise the quality bar across the team.
• Lead post‑mortems and drive continuous improvement cycles that harden DevEx systems against failure modes and reduce operational burden for engineering teams.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with building production platforms, developer tooling, delivery infrastructure, or distributed storage systems.
• Strong systems design skills. You think in distributed services, event‑driven architectures, and APIs. You approach developer platform problems as software engineering problems, not configuration exercises.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages with production experience shipping services in cloud‑native environments.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes. You understand how workloads are packaged, scheduled, and managed at the cluster level, and can design platform services that integrate at that layer.
• Experience with or strong technical interest in LLM‑integrated developer tooling, such as agent frameworks, MCP‑style tools, or AI‑assisted developer workflows.
• Proven track record of setting technical direction, making sound architectural trade‑offs, and driving engineering decisions that hold up as systems and teams scale.
• Effective cross‑functional collaborator. You can align stakeholders, influence without authority, and translate complex technical trade‑offs for technical and non‑technical audiences alike.
• Experience mentoring engineers and consistently raising the technical quality bar of the teams you work on.

Nice to Have

• Experience building or extending CI and build infrastructure at scale, including GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Bazel, or similar build systems.
• Experience designing and operating progressive delivery systems at scale, including SLO‑based quality gates, automated multi‑stage pipeline orchestration, and custom Kubernetes operators across heterogeneous deployment environments.
• Hands‑on experience with artifact management, including distributed storage, caching, versioning, or multi‑region artifact distribution (e.g. JFrog Artifactory, Cloudsmith, or custom‑built systems).
• Direct experience building agentic systems, including MCP servers, tool‑augmented LLM workflows, and incorporating these capabilities into DevEx platform features with consistent value‑add.

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).

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 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
• 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.