Senior Software Engineer - Perf and Benchmarking

Coreweave; United States; On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Mental Wellness Benefits

Parental Leave

Childcare support

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunches

Casual work environment

Innovative disruption culture

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Engineer for its Benchmarking & Performance team to design and implement Kubernetes-native benchmarking services and end-to-end MLPerf workflows.

You will lead latency/throughput improvements, collaborate with product, orchestration, and hardware teams, and mentor junior engineers to raise standards across the platform.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience building distributed systems or cloud services.
• Strong programming skills in Python or Go (C++ a plus).
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Exposure to performance-critical GPU systems (CUDA, NCCL, NVLink/PCIe).
• Effective communicator comfortable cross-functional work.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance Kubernetes-native benchmarking services measuring latency, throughput, jitter, and cost-per-request across CoreWeave’s compute stack.
• Contribute to benchmarking workflows for MLPerf training and inference runs, including workload setup and result validation.
• Participate in design discussions and contribute to architecture decisions within the team.
• Break down tasks into milestones and deliver reliable, high-quality code.
• Collaborate to maintain reproducible, well-documented benchmarking processes.
• Provide constructive code reviews and share best practices with peers.
• Mentor junior engineers; review cross-team designs and elevate coding/testing standards.
• Help ensure reproducible, well-documented benchmarking processes.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python/Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability tools

GPU performance basics

Communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

About this role

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer for CoreWeave’s Benchmarking & Performance team. You will have an integral part in our planet-scale performance data warehouse: Ingesting, storing, transforming and analyzing performance events in all the data centers across our global infrastructure. You will also aid us in achieving industry-leading end-to-end performance benchmarking publications such as MLPerf.

You will be an owner who leads designs, raises engineering standards, and delivers measurable improvements to latency, throughput, and reliability across multiple services. You’ll partner with product, orchestration, and hardware teams to evolve our Kubernetes-native platform and meet strict P99 SLAs at scale.

What you’ll do

• Develop and enhance Kubernetes-native benchmarking services that measure latency, throughput, jitter, and cost-per-request across CoreWeave’s compute stack.
• Contribute to implementing and maintaining benchmarking workflows for end-to-end MLPerf Training and Inference runs, including workload setup, cluster configuration, and result validation.
• Participate in design discussions and contribute to architecture decisions within the team.
• Break down engineering tasks into clear milestones and deliver reliable, high-quality code.
• Collaborate with teammates to maintain reproducible, well-documented benchmarking processes.
• Provide constructive code reviews and share best practices with peers.
• Mentor junior engineers; review cross-team designs and elevate coding/testing standards.
• Help ensure reproducible, well-documented benchmarking processes.

Who you are

• 3–5 years of experience building distributed systems, high-performance computing components, or cloud services.
• Strong programming skills in Python or Go (C++ a plus) with understanding of networked systems and performance fundamentals.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes in production environments plus familiarity with CI/CD and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Exposure to performance‑critical GPU systems (CUDA, NCCL, NVLink/PCIe, memory bandwidth) or model‑serving stacks (llm-d, vLLM, TensorRT‑LLM, Megatron‑LM).
• Effective communicator comfortable working cross‑functionally.

Nice to have

• Experience with time‑series databases, LSM‑based storage engines, or custom data pipelines.
• Familiarity with MLPerf or other large‑scale benchmarking frameworks.
• Contributions to OSS projects such as llm-d, vLLM or PyTorch.
• Exposure to benchmarking GPU clusters or multi‑region environments.
• Background working with CUDA kernels, NCCL/SHARP, RDMA/NUMA, or GPU interconnect topologies.

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

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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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.