CoreWeave
Staff Software Engineer, MetalDev
New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- This is a software-first role at the intersection of distributed systems, production reliability, and hardware-aware automation, where your work directly improves the reliability, safety, and scalability of real-world infrastructure.\
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Go-based services that manage the lifecycle of large-scale GPU data center infrastructure.
- Partner with hardware-adjacent, infrastructure, operations, and software teams to design systems that work safely at fleet scale.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
- Expertise in Go and proven experience building REST/gRPC APIs for mission-critical platforms.
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on infrastructure, cloud engineering, and distributed databases-particularly within large-scale datacenter and cloud environments.
- Proven success in mentoring engineers, leading technical projects, and influencing engineering strategy across teams.
- Experience contributing to and collaborating with open source communities.
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, PromQL), CI/CD pipelines, and operating large fleets of GPU servers.
- Track record of leading incident response, postmortems, and driving robust service reliability.
Nice to have
- 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- 401(k) with a generous employer match
- A casual work environment
Skills
- Working knowledge of Kafka, ClickHouse and CRDB.
- DMTF, RedFish APIs, and GPU servers.
- The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.
- These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.
- 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
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $207,000 to $275,000.
Benefits
- 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
- Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
- Paid Parental Leave
- for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process.
- 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.
Company info
- Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Export Control Compliance
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