Staff Data Engineer: Enterprise Data Architect

CoreWeave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 207,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to define and drive the architecture of its enterprise data ecosystem. You will set standards for data modeling, governance, and platform design, partnering with senior engineers to translate business needs into durable technical solutions across our lakehouse platform.

You will lead cross-domain architecture, mentor engineers, and establish reusable patterns to scale data products.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, distributed systems, or data architecture roles.
• Experience setting technical direction for data systems spanning multiple teams, business domains, or platforms.
• Deep expertise in enterprise analytical modeling, including dimensional, Data Vault, semantic modeling, and governed metrics.
• Advanced knowledge of distributed OLAP, query, processing, and ingestion systems such as StarRocks, ClickHouse, Trino, Spark, Flink, or Kafka.
• Expert-level SQL and strong programming in Python, Scala, Java, or Rust, with experience building production-grade data systems.
• Experience implementing governance capabilities such as lineage, profiling, metadata management, data quality controls, access policies, or auditability.

Responsibilities

• Define the company-wide strategy for data modeling, semantic layers, enterprise metrics, and reusable data products.
• Set architectural standards for CoreWeave's lakehouse, including data organization, schemas, metadata, governance, and serving patterns.
• Design scalable frameworks for data quality, lineage, observability, access control, and policy enforcement.
• Lead the architecture of complex, cross-domain data systems spanning operational, financial, product, people, and infrastructure data.
• Establish durable data contracts, system boundaries, and reusable engineering patterns across teams.
• Identify and resolve systemic performance, reliability, and scalability constraints across the data ecosystem.
• Lead architecture reviews for high-impact initiatives and ensure alignment with the broader platform strategy.
• Evaluate and standardize core data technologies across processing, orchestration, cataloging, modeling, and metadata management.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the quality of system design and technical decision-making across the organization.

Skills

Data modeling

Leadership

SQL

Python

Scala

Java

Rust

Cross-team direction

Mentorship

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Delta Lake

Apache Hudi

Apache Paimon

Apache Flink

Spark

Trino

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to define and drive the architecture of its enterprise data ecosystem. You will set standards for data modeling, governance, and platform design, partnering with senior engineers to translate business needs into durable technical solutions across our lakehouse platform.

You will lead cross-domain architecture, mentor engineers, and establish reusable patterns to scale data products.