Senior Software Engineer I

CoreWeave

Sunnyvale (CA)

On-site

USD 153,000 - 204,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking an experienced software engineer to build and own full‑stack applications in UNION, CoreWeave’s data platform and AI‑centric stack.

You will work with a modern TS/React/Next.js frontend, Python services on Kubernetes, and Postgres alongside a lakehouse. You’ll ship AI‑powered interfaces, ensure reliability, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to drive product outcomes.

Qualifications

4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong Python and TypeScript, with React/Next.js or similar.
Experience designing and running HTTP APIs with timeouts, retries, and correctness.
Strong SQL and relational data modeling, including live schema changes.
Experience shipping LLM-backed features to production.
Hands-on with containers and deployment tooling (Docker, Helm, Kubernetes).
Experience wiring applications to data platforms and analytical DBs (Spark, Kafka, StarRocks, Snowflake).
CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and on-call for owned software.
Experience collaborating with non-engineers to ship usable software.

Responsibilities

Build full-stack applications and features in UNION, owning production readiness.
Work with TypeScript/React/Next.js, Python services on Kubernetes, and Postgres.
Define data models and interfaces, ensure data governance and reliability.
Develop AI-facing features and evaluative components for model outputs.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to determine what to build before implementing.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

React

Next.js

Kubernetes

SQL

API design

LLM features

Docker

Helm

Postgres

Spark

Kafka

StarRocks

Snowflake

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Postgres

Spark

Kafka

StarRocks

Snowflake

Helm

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.

What You’ll Do

Applications Engineering, part of CoreWeave’s Data Infrastructure organization, builds the software CoreWeave uses to plan and operate its own infrastructure business. Some of that is UNION, our data platform, where anyone in the company can query the lakehouse in plain language and stand up their own dashboards, applications, and agents. The rest is the applications behind decisions like which data centers get which hardware and when, for a company adding gigawatts of capacity a year. Engineering, finance, supply chain, and data center operations all depend on what we ship.

About The Role

You will build full-stack applications, and features in UNION itself, and own all of it in production, from the interface down to the data model. Our stack is TypeScript with React and Next.js, Python services running on Kubernetes, and Postgres alongside the lakehouse. We care more that you have built and run this kind of software than which frameworks you built it in. A good share of the work is AI-facing, meaning natural language interfaces and agents that operate on governed data, plus the evaluation work that tells you whether they are any good. Owning a product area here means you sit with the people who run the process and work out with them what the software should do. You are also the one who answers for it when it breaks. Most of these processes have never been written down anywhere, so a fair amount of the job is working out what to build before you build it.

Who You Are

4+ Years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong Python and TypeScript, with real experience in React, Next.js, or a comparable modern framework
Experience designing and running HTTP APIs that other services depend on, including timeouts, retries, and keeping writes correct when a call fails partway through
Strong SQL and relational data modeling, including schemas you had to change after they were already live
Experience shipping LLM-backed features to production, including how you measured whether their output was correct
Hands‑on experience with containers and deployment tooling such as Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes, and with operating your own services
Experience wiring applications up to data platforms and analytical databases such as Spark, Kafka, StarRocks, or Snowflake
CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and on‑call for the software you own
Experience working directly with non‑engineers on problems nobody had specified yet, and shipping software they adopted

Preferred

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related technical field.
Experience building AI-native applications such as text-to-SQL interfaces, copilots, agents, or automated insight generation
Experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, and with the tracing and evaluation tooling around them
Experience designing and running distributed systems in cloud‑native environments such as Kubernetes
Familiarity with open table formats such as Iceberg, Delta, or Hudi, and with query engines such as StarRocks, Snowflake, or BigQuery
Experience building internal platforms or tools that other teams used to answer their own questions
Background in an operationally heavy domain such as capacity planning, supply chain, or finance

Wondering if you’re a good fit?

You want the people using your software to be people you know by name, and you take it personally when it gets in their way
You want a product area that is yours to own end to end, from the first conversation with a user to the thing running in production
You work well at speed. Priorities here move with the business, and the problems worth solving tend to arrive on short notice
You want to know whether the AI in your product is any good, and you will build the evals to find out
You stand behind what you ship, whether you wrote it or a model helped you write it

Why CoreWeave?

About

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 $153,000 to $204,000. 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: