Staff Platform Engineer: Scale & Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance—

Company-paid Life Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

ESPP

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch in offices

Job summary

CoreWeave is the essential cloud for AI, delivering a scalable data platform and infrastructure engineering support for production-grade AI workloads. The Staff Software Engineer will own reliability with Kubernetes-based systems across regions, focusing on deployment, security, and performance.

You will shape end-to-end pipelines and incident response, ensuring uptime targets and scalable architecture. With a strong emphasis on observability, IaC, and distributed systems, you’ll influence

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in Platform/Infrastructure Engineering or building highly scalable distributed systems.
• Familiarity with data platforms and data-intensive workloads, including distributed processing and streaming (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink).
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes cluster design, operations, and production troubleshooting across containerized services.
• Proven track record building and operating robust CI/CD pipelines (Argo CD, GitHub Actions).
• Experience owning mission-critical systems with high availability (≥99.99%), incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definitions, and blameless postmortems.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems, databases, and backend APIs.
• Designing and operating geo-replicated, active-active, multi-region systems with traffic routing and failover strategies.
• Strong observability capabilities using metrics, logging, and tracing (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry).
• Proficiency with IaC tooling (Helm, Terraform, Pulumi) and automated environment provisioning.
• System performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed environments.
• Security best practices in cloud-native environments, including secrets management and network policies.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of the reliability and performance of the Kubernetes-based data platform.
• Architect and operate highly available, multi-region systems meeting uptime and latency standards.
• Scale infrastructure, optimize deployment pipelines, and strengthen security posture.
• Build, test, and manage scalable systems that are production-ready from day one.

Skills

10+ years experience

Data platform exposure

Kubernetes & containers

CI/CD

Production ownership

Distributed systems

Multi-region design

Observability

IaC (Helm/Terraform/Pulumi)

Performance tuning

Cloud-native security

Tools

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

Flink

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Helm

Terraform

Pulumi

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Job description

CoreWeave is the essential cloud for AI, delivering a scalable data platform and infrastructure engineering support for production-grade AI workloads. The Staff Software Engineer will own reliability with Kubernetes-based systems across regions, focusing on deployment, security, and performance.

You will shape end-to-end pipelines and incident response, ensuring uptime targets and scalable architecture. With a strong emphasis on observability, IaC, and distributed systems, you’ll influence