Technical Program Manager, Engineering Excellence

Coreweave; Washington; On-site; USD 157,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

401(k) with generous employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch each day

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead programs that elevate engineering excellence across our developer teams. You will own programs ensuring fast shipping without compromising reliability, security, or compliance and work across the SDLC with multi-team execution.

You will partner with platform, security, reliability, and product teams; drive standardization, visibility, and measurable outcomes while engaging with engineers and leadership to align priorities and track

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management in a complex technical environment.
• Led complex technical programs spanning developer infrastructure, CI/CD, build and test systems, artifact management, release engineering or distributed systems.
• Led migrations or platform adoption programs across multiple engineering teams, including inventory, wave planning, exception handling and legacy decommission.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal developer platform teams to define engineering excellence and paved path.
• Drive migration and capacity planning with engineering teams to improve velocity and reliability.
• Lead rollout of engineering and security standards across all engineering orgs, including acquisitions.
• Drive programs to make releases safer via change guardrails, progressive rollout, rollback readiness and control validation.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, security, reliability, and observability teams to reduce deployment incidents and regressions.
• Create clear visibility into program status, ownership, dependencies, risks, decisions and progress for engineers, product managers and leadership.
• Collaborate with product managers to understand priorities and make outcomes measurable.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Communication

Customer-obsessed

Problem solving

Education

Master's or advanced technical degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

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.

About the role:

CoreWeave is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead programs that level up engineering excellence across our developer teams. In this role, you will own engineering programs that ensure our engineering team can ship fast, without compromising reliability, security or compliance. You will look at the whole software development life cycle (SDLC), get a deep understanding of how our engineers work and what goods look like. This position is ideal for someone who has run large scale programs across many engineering teams, understands every step of the SDLC and can keep multi-team execution moving without direct authority.

In this role, TPM will

• Work closely with our internal developer platform teams to understand the paved path and define engineering excellence.
• Meet your internal customers, the CoreWeave engineering teams, where they are, understand their priorities and drive their migration onto the paved path. ,.
• Lead rollout of engineering and security standards across all engineering organizations, including acquired entities, sequencing overlapping changes and managing exceptions.
• Drive programs that make releases and operations safer, such as change guardrails, progressive rollout, rollback readiness and validation of controls.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, security, reliability and observability teams to reduce deployment related incidents and regressions.
• Create clear visibility into program status, ownership, dependencies, risks, decisions needed and progress against commitments for engineers, product managers and leadership.
• Work closely with the internal product managers to understand priorities and make outcomes measurable.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure program management or a similar role in a complex technical environment.
• Have led complex technical programs spanning developer infrastructure, CI/CD, build and test systems, artifact management, release engineering or distributed systems.
• Have run large scale migrations or platform adoption programs across many engineering teams, including inventory, wave planning, exception handling and legacy decommission.
• Can engage deeply with engineers on workflow architecture, deployment systems, rollout risk, observability and operational tradeoffs.
• Have delivered measurable improvements in developer velocity, deployment throughput, release reliability or engineering efficiency.
• Know how to turn fragmented ownership and recurring manual work into durable mechanisms, standards and tooling with strong adoption.
• Use data and qualitative evidence to prioritize work, define useful metrics and distinguish real productivity gains from local optimization.
• Lead effectively across platform and product teams, resolve ambiguity and keep multi-team execution moving without direct authority.
• Are Customer obsessed - Treat engineering teams and partners as customers.
• Communicate with precision and move comfortably between technical detail, operational execution and executive level decisions.
• Proficiency in JIRA, Confluence and other program management and collaboration tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or advanced technical degree.
• Experience with software supply chain security programs such as artifact governance, dependency management, source control hardening or credential and secrets management.
• Experience integrating acquired companies onto shared engineering platforms and security standards.
• Experience driving security or compliance driven programs with fixed deadlines across many engineering teams.
• Experience at a cloud provider, AI infrastructure company, hyperscaler or other high scale technical environment.
• Comfortable working in a fast moving environment and flexible working with a variety of leadership.

Why CoreWeave

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of growth, scaling at an unprecedented speed. We are frequently challenging the norm, exploring new technologies and advancing the potential for hyperscale. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our products 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 provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we continue to grow, opportunities within the organization are evolving and expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. If this resonates with you, come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $157,000 to $210,000. 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

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 technology and/or source code subject to U.S. export control laws. Any such access will be provided only in compliance with applicable U.S. export control requirements. As part of the recruitment process, CoreWeave may request limited information reasonably necessary to assess applicable export-control requirements.