CoreWeave
Senior Software Engineer II, Observability
Sunnyvale, CA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- We are seeking Senior Software Engineers who specialize across the pillars of Observability to play a pivotal role in CoreWeave's ability to bring the best performing systems to market.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and own core observability infrastructure, including highly scalable and reliable logging, metrics, and tracing platforms.
- Develop and operate high-throughput telemetry pipelines that ingest, transform, and expose observability data, ensuring reliability, security, and transparent data migrations for platform consumers.
- Participate in the team's on-call rotation to support critical production systems, focusing on root cause analysis and building durable solutions to prevent recurrence.
- Collaborate closely with internal engineering teams, applying a platform-as-a-product mindset to understand their needs and embed observability best practices and custom tooling into their systems.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and delivering robust and scalable systems, with a commitment to operational excellence, high-quality code, effective testing, and progressive release strategies.
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Proficient in Go (our primary language) or Python, with the ability to write clean, resilient, and testable production code.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, including containerization and microservices architectures, and familiarity with their observability challenges.
- Ability to analyze and decompose complex problems in elastic, distributed architectures into manageable, well-scoped work.
- Experience participating in an on-call rotation for critical production systems.
Nice to have
- Direct, hands-on experience designing, operating, or scaling logging, tracing, and/or metrics platforms (e.g., Loki, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Thanos).
- Familiarity with data streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Kafka Connect) for observability pipelines.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry for unified telemetry collection and instrumentation.
- Experience with modern AI platforms and workloads (e.g., large-scale training and inference, GPU-based infrastructure, MLOps tooling) is a plus.
- 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- 401(k) with a generous employer match
- A casual work environment
- A work culture focused on innovative disruption
Skills
- CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™.
- CRWV) in March 2025.
- Learn more at www.coreweave.com.
Compensation
- The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000.
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
- 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 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.
- About the Role We are seeking Senior Software Engineers who specialize across the pillars of Observability to play a pivotal role in CoreWeave's ability to bring the best performing systems to market.
- Contribute to the overall observability strategy, influencing the direction of our platform and the experience we provide to customers.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
- equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Export Control Compliance
This listing is sourced directly from CoreWeave's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.