Senior Software Engineer II, Observability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with match

ESPP

Paid parental leave

Catered lunches and flexible PTO

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Observability to design and operate scalable logging, metrics, and tracing systems. You will ingest, transform, and expose telemetry data across thousands of GPUs and petabytes of telemetry, ensuring reliability and security while enabling product teams to understand and improve performance.

You’ll work with Go or Python, Kubernetes, and modern tooling to implement durable pipelines, contribute to platform strategy, and participate in

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
• Proficient in Go or Python with production-grade coding practices

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own core observability infrastructure (logging, metrics, tracing)
• Develop and operate high-throughput telemetry pipelines
• Tackle observability challenges at extreme scale across GPU clusters
• Improve performance, security, reliability, and scalability of observability services
• Participate in on-call rotations for production systems
• Collaborate with internal teams to embed observability as a platform service

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Observability

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Elasticsearch

Kafka

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 The Role

We are seeking Senior Software Engineers who specialize across the pillars of Observability to play a pivotal role in CoreWeave’s ability to bring the best performing systems to market. Whether you focus on metrics, logging and tracing, or telemetry pipelines and visualization, you’ll have an outsized opportunity to enable both CoreWeave and its customers to understand, troubleshoot, and optimize complex systems at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and own core observability infrastructure, including highly scalable and reliable logging, metrics, and tracing platforms.
• Develop and operate high-throughput telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform, and expose observability data, ensuring reliability, security, and transparent data migrations for platform consumers.
• Tackle observability challenges at extreme scale, supporting clusters of thousands of GPUs, petabyte-scale telemetry, and high-cardinality workloads.
• Continuously improve performance, security, reliability, and scalability of observability services through software enhancements, automation, and new feature development.
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to support critical production systems, focusing on root cause analysis and building durable solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate closely with internal engineering teams, applying a platform-as-a-product mindset to understand their needs and embed observability best practices and custom tooling into their systems.
• Contribute to the overall observability strategy, influencing the direction of our platform and the experience we provide to customers.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Proficient in Go (our primary language) or Python, with the ability to write clean, resilient, and testable production code.
• Hands‑on Kubernetes experience in production, including containerization and microservices architectures, and familiarity with their observability challenges.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering robust and scalable systems, with a commitment to operational excellence, high-quality code, effective testing, and progressive release strategies.
• Ability to analyze and decompose complex problems in elastic, distributed architectures into manageable, well‑scoped work.
• Comfortable working with Helm and YAML‑based configuration for deploying and managing services, including templating, automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.
• A customer‑obsessed, platform‑minded engineer, eager to provide infrastructure as a service and apply a product lens when evaluating platform scale problems.
• Experience participating in an on‑call rotation for critical production systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct, hands‑on experience designing, operating, or scaling logging, tracing, and/or metrics platforms (e.g., Loki, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Thanos).
• Familiarity with data streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Kafka Connect) for observability pipelines.
• Experience automating and provisioning infrastructure as part of the software development lifecycle, using tools like Terraform.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry for unified telemetry collection and instrumentation.
• Experience with modern AI platforms and workloads (e.g., large-scale training and inference, GPU‑based infrastructure, MLOps tooling) is a plus.

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

• 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.