CoreWeave
Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orch (SUNK)
Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$207k-$275kDetected 23 days ago
GoSpringDistributed SystemsKubernetesMachine LearningMentoring
About the role
- As part of the Cluster Orchestration team, you will play a key role in advancing CoreWeave's orchestration platform including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond, our Kubernetes-native foundation that powers AI training and inference at scale.
- This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the AI cloud: ensuring workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters.
- This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the
Responsibilities
- You'll define architectural direction, own critical parts of the orchestration platform and other managed services, and drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling at hyperscale.
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
Requirements
- 8-12 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals and cloud-native development.
- Advanced proficiency in Go and distributed systems design.
- Experience setting technical direction and influencing cross-team architecture.
- Ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate organizational standards.
- Familiarity with orchestration and workflow technologies such as Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, or Argo Workflows
- Experience with distributed workloads, GPU-based applications, or ML pipelines.
- Knowledge of scheduling concepts like quota enforcement, pre-emption, and scaling strategies.
- Experience with AI infrastructure and workloads (ML training, inference, or HPC).
Skills
- CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™.
- ensuring workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters.
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
- 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
- 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 roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process.
Company info
- Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
- CRWV) in March 2025.
- By building the systems that eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and create new orchestration capabilities, you will directly empower customers to innovate faster and push the boundaries of what's possible with AI.
Equal opportunity
- Export Control Compliance
- This position requires access to export controlled information.
- CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
- careers@coreweave.com.
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