Staff Engineer, Network Observability

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch each day

401(k) with generous employer match

Job summary

Coreweave is looking for a Staff Engineer for Network Observability to define and evolve technical direction across multiple teams. You will build resilient telemetry systems, improve decision-making during operations, and enable automation workflows.

Your expertise will help mentor engineers and set technical standards. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in observability solutions and strong programming skills in Python, Go, and Bash.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in building flexible network observability solutions.
• Experience as a Network Engineer, SRE, Software Engineer, or Systems Engineer.
• Comfortable containerizing and operating solutions in Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical direction for network observability.
• Lead design and evolution of scalable observability solutions.
• Mentor junior and senior engineers through technical reviews.

Skills

Network observability solutions

Python

Go

Bash

Linux systems

IP networking concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Ansible

Job description

What You’ll Do:

The Network Observability team is responsible for how CoreWeave observes, understands, and operates its network at scale. As a Staff Engineer for Network Observability, you will define and evolve the technical direction for network observability, partnering across Network Engineering, SRE, Platform, and adjacent infrastructure teams to build resilient telemetry systems, raise engineering standards, and turn observability into a strategic advantage for the business.

Your mission: build and scale a network observability platform that provides CoreWeave fast, trustworthy insight into network behavior, enables proactive risk detection, improves how engineering teams make decisions during both normal operations and incidents, and enables closed-loop automation workflows.

In this role, you will:

• Set technical direction for network observability across multiple teams, ensuring the platform, data models, and telemetry strategy align with long-term engineering and business goals
• Lead the design and evolution of scalable observability solutions using diverse collector technologies (e.g., gNMI, SNMP, Prometheus scraping, OTEL, logs, flows, etc.), persistence databases (e.g., Prometheus-like, Loki, Clickhouse), and visualization and alerting ones (e.g., Grafana, Alertmanager), with a strong focus on reliability, usability, and future scale
• Drive cross-team initiatives to standardize observability patterns, improve signal quality, and create a consistent approach to logs, metrics, events, flows, and related diagnostics across the network stack
• Partner closely with engineering leadership and technical stakeholders to prioritize investments, navigate ambiguity, and make high‑leverage technical tradeoffs that improve resilience, scalability, and operator efficiency
• Act as a go-to technical expert for critical observability challenges, especially when incidents, architectural complexity, or unclear ownership require strong judgment and coordination
• Mentor junior and senior engineers through technical reviews, design guidance, and hands‑on problem solving, raising the bar for engineering quality and multiplying the impact of the broader team
• Participate in design discussions, RFCs, and architectural decisions across the broader infrastructure organization, helping teams converge on scalable, maintainable solutions
• Join a rotating on‑call schedule as a senior escalation point for observability-related issues, helping teams quickly isolate failures, improve incident response, and drive durable follow-through after outages

Who You Are:

• Deep expertise in building flexible network observability solutions, with diverse implementation options for collectors, distribution, processing, persistence, alerting, analytics, and visualization
• Experience as a Network Engineer, SRE, Software Engineer, or Systems Engineer in large-scale environments, with a strong track record of building and operating observability or infrastructure platforms that support multiple teams
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, shape technical direction, and make sound architectural and operational tradeoffs that balance immediate needs with long-term maintainability
• Strong systems thinking and practical experience designing resilient, scalable solutions that improve visibility, incident response, and engineering efficiency
• Proven ability to work across teams and functions, influence without formal authority, and build trust with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proficient with Python, Go, and Bash, plus familiarity with configuration management and templating tools such as Ansible and Jinja2
• Comfortable containerizing and operating solutions in Kubernetes, including designing, building, and deploying container-based workloads efficiently
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and IP networking concepts, with hands‑on experience in routing, switching, and network troubleshooting
• Practical experience with networking platforms such as SONiC, HPE Junos, NVIDIA Cumulus Linux, Nokia SR OS, and SR Linux
• A strong mentorship mindset and a history of helping other engineers grow through coaching, design feedback, documentation, and technical leadership

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands‑on experience applying machine learning techniques or tools to proactively detect performance or security anomalies in network traffic
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin, or similar tooling for end-to-end tracing across distributed systems and infrastructure components
• Experience shaping technical roadmaps, setting standards, or leading platform investments that materially improved reliability or scalability across multiple teams
• Network certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, or similar

Why CoreWeave?

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

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.