Sr. Engineering Manager, Inference

CoreWeave; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Equity awards

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead the core team for the next-generation Inference Platform. You will guide a team of senior and staff engineers building and operating a Kubernetes-native inference platform, focusing on reliability, latency, and cost at scale.

The role demands 8+ years in distributed systems with 3+ years in engineering management, a track record of shipping production services, and strong stakeholder communication across fast-growing teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services.
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including managing senior and staff-level engineers.
• Track record owning a production service end to end including availability, latency, capacity, and cost.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networked services, and performance under load; able to lead architecture and code review without owning the critical path.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of senior and staff engineers building and operating CoreWeave's Kubernetes-native inference platform.
• Own platform design, deployment, and operation at production scale.
• Drive performance, cost, and reliability improvements; guide hiring and developer growth.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Engineering leadership

SLI/SLOs and error budgeting

High-scale performance

Hiring and mentoring engineers

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

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.

CoreWeave is looking for a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead the core team for our next-generation Inference Platform.

What You’ll Do

As a Sr. Engineering Manager for the Inference team, you will lead a team of senior and staff engineers building and operating CoreWeave's Kubernetes-native inference platform.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including managing senior and staff-level engineers
• Track record owning a production service end to end including availability, latency, capacity, and cost
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes at production scale, including orchestration, scheduling, and service design
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networked services, and performance under load; able to lead architecture and code review without owning the critical path
• Experience defining and defending SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and building the operational practice behind them
• Experience with multi-tenant platforms: isolation, quota, noisy-neighbor mitigation, and fair sharing
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to create clarity in ambiguous or fast-scaling environment.
• Demonstrated track record of growing and promoting engineers, including into senior and staff-level roles
• Experience running performance calibration and making accurate leveling decisions
• Experience managing underperformance directly and fairly, as well as retaining top performers
• Experience building and owning a hiring bar and interview process for senior engineering roles

Platform & Service Expertise

• Experience operating low-latency, high-throughput request-serving systems against strict P95/P99 targets
• Working knowledge of autoscaling, load balancing, admission control, and traffic management at scale
• Experience with capacity planning and demand forecasting for constrained or expensive resources
• Familiarity with GPU-backed workloads and the scheduling and utilization trade-offs they introduce
• Progressive delivery practices canarying, feature gating, safe rollback for always on services

Nice to Have

• Experience operating a customer-facing cloud service or developer platform, including API and control-plane design
• Familiarity with inference-serving stacks such as vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, or TorchServe
• Experience operating multi-region fleets at a cloud provider or hyperscaler
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Experience scaling teams, tooling, and processes in a high-growth environment

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 to build frictionless products for developers
• You’re curious about AI and MLOps tooling
• You’re an expert in building inference systems that scale for production workloads

Why Us?

About

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

What We Offer

The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $303,000. 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).

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 full-time employees; 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.