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CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sr. Infrastructure Engineer to join our Hardware Engineering Dev team (Metal Dev). Reporting to the Engineering Manager for Hardware Engineering Dev, you will play a crucial part in the development, deployment, and monitoring of services that manage our bare-metal infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of highly performant and reliable infrastructure solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Incident Management & Support:
- Lead incident response efforts by identifying and resolving service disruptions quickly, while coaching other junior team members through resolution.
- Lead the documentation of incidents, conduct in-depth root cause analysis (RCA), and drive post-incident reviews (PIRs) to identify systemic issues. Implement long term improvements that would prevent service degradation.
- Own the development and continuous improvement of incident response playbooks ensuring preparedness for a wide range of failure scenarios.
- Clearly communicate efforts during incidents to the management, stakeholders and the cross functional teams, during an incident. Keep clear records of incident activities.
- Master clear understanding of various services on how they work in production as well as build through knowledge of the internals of these services and how they interact with the entire stack.
Operational Support & Reliability
- Build a strategy around making our core services perform at its best at scale. This includes improvements to the services for robustness as well as supportability in production.
- Own system observability and health leveraging tools like Prometheus and Grafana, to proactively detect performance bottlenecks and prevent incidents.
- Lead automation efforts to streamline incident detection and recovery, minimizing manual intervention.
- Define and drive KPIs and SLAs for incident management and ensuring alignment with the organizational reliability objectives.
Collaborate with engineers across teams to improve platform reliability, resilience improvements, and disaster recovery.
- Collaborate with upstream communities, including Go and Redfish-based services.
- Design and implement solutions to build operational efficiency and stability.
- Document hardware automation workflows and processes.
- Create CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensure smooth operation of all aspects of the server hardware lifecycle, from provisioning to end-of-life, by troubleshooting bugs, automating common tasks, and documenting processes
- Partner with the Fleet Operations Team to design scalable tooling and processes that enables self-service and reduction in escalation overhead.
- Build out dashboards and alerts to make efficient operational troubleshooting.
- Participate in on-call rotation as well as triage issues that are posted in support channels on an ongoing basis.
- This role is responsible for reducing on-call queries and incidents over time.
Qualification:
- 7+ years of experience in cloud operations, site reliability engineering (SRE), or related technical roles.
- Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, AWS, GCP) and basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure.
- Familiarity with incident management practices and frameworks (e.g., ITIL, SRE best practices).
- Proficiency with Go.
- Prior experience with Prometheus / Grafana.
- Previous experience deploying containerized applications using Kubernetes.
- Excellent documentation skills and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Served on an on-call rotation supporting production services.
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
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 get set for take off, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!
The base salary range for this role is $153,000 to $242,000. 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
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: careers@coreweave.com.
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.
