Senior Software Engineer, Observability

Coreweave; New York, California (NY, MO); On-site; USD 139,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Equity awards

Job summary

CoreWeave seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Observability team to design and operate scalable observability infrastructure across thousands of GPUs. You’ll build metrics, logging, tracing, and telemetry pipelines and collaborate with internal teams to improve reliability.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in distributed systems, strong Go or Python, Kubernetes and Helm/YAML, and on-call production experience. Base salary and generous benefits reflect the role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software/infrastructure engineering for large-scale distributed systems.
• Proficient in Go or Python with production-grade code quality.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, microservices, and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core observability infrastructure for GPUs and AI workloads.
• Develop metrics, logging, tracing, and telemetry pipelines across clusters.
• Collaborate with teams to embed observability best practices and reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations for production systems.

Skills

Go or Python

Kubernetes

Distributed systems design

YAML/ Helm

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Math or related field

Tools

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

Job description

What You’ll Do:

Join CoreWeave’s Observability team, responsible for building the systems that give our customers and internal teams unparalleled visibility into complex AI workloads. Our team empowers engineers to understand, troubleshoot, and optimize high-performance infrastructure at massive scale.

About the role: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Observability team, you will design, build, and maintain core observability infrastructure spanning metrics, logging, tracing, and telemetry pipelines. Your day-to-day will involve developing highly reliable and scalable systems, collaborating with internal engineering teams to embed observability best practices, and tackling performance and reliability challenges across clusters of thousands of GPUs. You’ll also contribute to platform strategy and participate in on‑call rotations to ensure critical production systems remain robust and operational.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering with a focus on designing, building, and operating large‑scale distributed systems in production.
• Proficient in Go or Python with experience writing clean, testable, and resilient production code.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and microservices architectures in production environments.
• Proven ability to design and deliver scalable, robust systems with high‑quality code, automated testing, and progressive release strategies.
• Skilled in decomposing complex problems in distributed architectures into manageable, well‑scoped work.
• Familiar with Helm and YAML‑based configurations for deploying and managing services, including templating, automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code practices.
• Experience participating in on‑call rotations for critical production systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.

Preferred:

• Experience designing, operating, or scaling logging, metrics, or tracing platforms (e.g., Loki, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Thanos).
• Familiarity with data streaming systems for observability pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Kafka Connect).
• Experience automating infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform.
• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry for unified telemetry collection and instrumentation.
• Exposure to modern AI workloads and GPU‑based infrastructure, including large‑scale training and inference.

Wondering if you’re a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.

• You love building systems that provide deep visibility into complex, high‑scale environments.
• You’re curious about observability, telemetry, and platform performance at massive scale.
• You’re an expert in distributed systems and engineering resilient, scalable software.

Base salary range: $139,000 to $220,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. 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

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.