Sr. Software Engineer - Perf and Benchmarking

Coreweave; Washington; On-site; USD 139,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid

Company-paid Life Insurance

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Coreweave is seeking a Senior Engineer to join their Benchmarking & Performance team, playing a crucial role in their performance data warehouse and supporting industry-leading benchmarking efforts such as MLPerf. This role involves working with Kubernetes-native services and delivering improvements in latency and throughput across multiple services.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in high-performance cloud services and be comfortable mentoring others. Coreweave offers a competitive salary range of $139,000 to $204,000, alongside a comprehensive benefits program.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building distributed systems or cloud services.
• Strong coding in Python or Go, familiar with performance-critical systems.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience at production scale.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve Kubernetes-native benchmarking services.
• Lead design reviews and drive architecture within the team.
• Mentor junior engineers and elevate coding standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

High-performance computing

Cloud services

Python

Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability stacks

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

• Build and improve Kubernetes‑native benchmarking services that measure latency, throughput, jitter, and cost‑per‑request across CoreWeave’s compute stack.
• Implement and maintain benchmarking workflows for end‑to‑end MLPerf Training and Inference runs, including workload setup, cluster configuration, runbooks, and result validation.
• Lead design reviews and drive architecture within the team; decompose multi‑service work into clear milestones.
• Mentor junior engineers; review cross‑team designs and elevate coding/testing standards.
• Help ensure reproducible, well‑documented benchmarking processes.

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience building distributed systems, high‑performance computing, or cloud services.
• Strong coding in Python or Go (C++ a plus) and deep familiarity with networked systems and performance.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes at production scale, CI/CD, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with performance‑critical GPU systems (CUDA, NCCL, RDMA, NVLink/PCIe, memory bandwidth) and model‑serving stacks (llm‑d, vLLM, TensorRT‑LLM, Megatron‑LM).
• Strong communicator comfortable collaborating with cross‑functional teams and external partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with time‑series databases, LSM‑based storage engines, or custom data pipelines.
• Experience running MLPerf submissions or similar large‑scale audited benchmarks.
• Contributions to OSS projects such as llm‑d, vLLM or PyTorch.
• Exposure to benchmarking large GPU fleets or multi‑region clusters.
• Experience with CUDA kernels, NCCL/SHARP, RDMA/NUMA, or GPU interconnect topologies.

Why CoreWeave

Help shape an industry‑defining inference platform that enables teams to deploy generative AI and real‑time applications at scale. If optimizing tail latency and delivering reliable model serving excites you, this is the place to build.

The base salary range for this role is $139,000 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

• 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.