Senior Storage Engineer – File & Block on Kubernetes

CoreWeave; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid parental leave

Job summary

CoreWeave, The Essential Cloud for AI, is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer, File & Block, to own the data path and control plane for high-performance, multi-tenant storage. You will ship customer-facing capabilities, run on CoreWeave’s own hardware, and integrate with Kubernetes to enable scalable AI workloads.

The role emphasizes building durable, low-latency storage with NFS and block volumes, tenancy controls, and encryption in transit.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating scalable, multi-tenant storage systems.
• Strong background in file systems and block storage in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, multi-tenant file and block storage.
• Develop CSI driver with dynamic provisioning, resize, and snapshots.
• Shape the storage data path and control plane for tenancy, provisioning, and data protection.
• Collaborate with platform, product, and infra teams to deliver storage across the stack.
• Mentor engineers on distributed, high-performance systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Go

C/Rust

gRPC/Protobuf

Multi-tenant storage

Data path optimization

Storage observability

CSI driver

Ceph/RBD

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ceph/RBD

Lustre

GPFS/Spectrum Scale

BeeGFS

WEKA

VAST

DAOS

Job description

CoreWeave, The Essential Cloud for AI, is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer, File & Block, to own the data path and control plane for high-performance, multi-tenant storage. You will ship customer-facing capabilities, run on CoreWeave’s own hardware, and integrate with Kubernetes to enable scalable AI workloads.

The role emphasizes building durable, low-latency storage with NFS and block volumes, tenancy controls, and encryption in transit.