CoreWeave
Reliability Lead, Common Services
New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
Distributed SystemsKubernetesTerraformAnsibleHelmCI/CDLinuxSite Reliability EngineeringRESTIncident ResponseDesign SystemsLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringMicrosoft Office
About the role
- Strong background in Linux-based production environments, containers, and orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes), including debugging complex issues in live systems.
- Comfortable working with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CI/CD pipelines) to make operations repeatable, auditable, and safe.
Responsibilities
- From authentication and authorization to core platform primitives and developer experience tooling, this organization ensures that the rest of CoreWeave can build, ship, and operate reliably at scale.
- As Reliability Lead, Common Services, you will establish and lead the Reliability Engineering and production operations practice for this organization.
- You'll partner closely with engineering leaders and teams across Common Services to define how we build, release, monitor, and operate critical services-raising the bar on reliability, availability, and operational excellence across the board.
- Establish and lead the SRE / production engineering practice for the Common Services organization, including standards for reliability, incident management, and on-call, in partnership with the central Product Engineering organization.
- Develop an Operational Excellence strategy that focuses on not only improving system performance but also monitoring and reducing operational toil
- Own and improve the incident management lifecycle for Common Services, including on-call rotations, escalation paths, incident tooling, post-incident reviews, and follow-through on corrective actions.
- Collaborate with engineering leads to design and review architectures for reliability, scalability, resilience, and operability, including failure modes, redundancy, and graceful degradation.
- Lead efforts to automate and harden operational workflows, including deployments, rollbacks, configuration management, change management, and routine maintenance tasks.
- Build strong, trust-based relationships with partner teams and stakeholders, becoming a go-to leader for production readiness and operational risk within Common Services.
- Partner with other SRE and production engineering leaders across CoreWeave to align on global practices, tools, and reliability goals, representing the needs and constraints of Common Services.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or similar roles working on distributed systems or cloud/platform services.
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing) and alerting systems, and a track record of designing meaningful SLIs/SLOs and alert strategies.
- Proven experience running on-call rotations and incident response, including leading high-severity incidents and driving high-quality post-incident reviews.
- Strong cross-functional communication skills-you can translate between engineering, product, and business stakeholders and influence without relying solely on authority.
- Experience with multi-tenant, multi-region, or highly regulated environments, and the associated reliability considerations.
- Familiarity with service ownership models and strong opinions on how to align ownership, on-call, and accountability in a scalable way.
Skills
- CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $206,000 to
Benefits
- Drive the observability strategy (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts) for Common Services, ensuring we have actionable visibility into the health, performance, and capacity of key systems.
- Hire, mentor, and develop SRE and production engineering talent, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, learning from incidents, and humane on-call.
- You're passionate about building humane, sustainable on-call practices and learning from incidents without blame.
Company info
- Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
- CRWV) in March 2025.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical Common Services, and ensure these become part of how teams plan and make tradeoffs.
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