Software Engineer, Kubernetes

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 153,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

CoreWeave is looking for a skilled professional to manage their Kubernetes production infrastructure in Livingston, New Jersey. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in production engineering with experience in Kubernetes administration, automation, and incident management.

You will help ensure the availability and reliability of Critical AI workloads while contributing to a robust operational culture. Exceptional benefits and a competitive salary package await the right candidate.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in production engineering or platform roles.
• Strong analytical skills for troubleshooting complex production issues.
• Proven track record in managing high-uptime systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Kubernetes production infrastructure.
• Develop automation for zero-touch operations.
• Design monitoring and observability solutions to identify production issues.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

Production engineering

Container orchestration

Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

Infrastructure programming (Go, Bash)

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Job description

What You'll Do:

In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the availability, reliability, and scalability of one of the industry's largest Kubernetes environments. As a member of the team, you will drive operational excellence, implement robust automation, and help shape the systems that keep CoreWeave’s cloud running smoothly.

About the role:

• Build, operate, and scale Kubernetes‑based production infrastructure that delivers CoreWeave’s products with high reliability and performance.
• Develop automation, tooling, and infrastructure as code in Go and other infrastructure‑focused languages to enable zero‑touch operations, rapid recovery, and seamless deployments.
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions—leveraging the Grafana ecosystem and related tools—to proactively identify and resolve production issues.
• Drive incident response efforts, participate in on‑call rotations, and lead root cause analysis to prevent recurrence and improve incident handling processes.
• Partner with internal and cross‑functional teams to ensure platform capabilities meet rigorous operational requirements and customer SLAs.
• Engineer for resiliency, implementing best practices for redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery across complex distributed systems.
• Advocate for security, reliability, and performance improvements throughout the stack, continuously seeking opportunities to strengthen operational standards.
• Contribute to the development of custom Kubernetes operators and intelligent orchestration frameworks that optimize AI workload performance and resource utilization at scale.

Who You Are:

• Bring 3+ years of experience in production engineering, SRE, or large‑scale infrastructure/platform roles.
• Are knowledgeable in Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and microservices architectures, with a bias for automating every aspect of operations.
• Have a proven track record managing high‑uptime, customer‑facing systems in a fast‑moving environment, with experience delivering measurable improvements in reliability and performance.
• Possess experience in monitoring, observability, and incident management using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Loki, or VictoriaMetrics.
• Demonstrate knowledge in infrastructure‑focused programming—especially in Go and Bash—and hold a deep understanding of Linux systems.
• Excel at troubleshooting complex production issues, from system failures to performance bottlenecks, and approach problems methodically with strong analytical skills.
• Communicate clearly across technical and non‑technical stakeholders, proactively sharing knowledge and advocating for operational best practices.
• Are passionate about building systems that are not just functional, but robust, self‑healing, and easy to operate at scale.
• Take pride in driving continuous improvement, and helping set high standards for operational excellence and team culture.

What Success Looks Like

• You deliver stable, robust, and highly‑available systems that consistently meet or exceed uptime and performance targets.
• You champion initiatives that drive automation, reduce operational toil, and increase the efficiency of incident response.
• You actively contribute to a blameless culture of learning, mentoring others in operational best practices and production engineering principles.
• You help CoreWeave maintain industry leadership through flawless execution in supporting demanding, AI‑powered workloads at scale.

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 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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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.