Senior Software Engineer, Server Fleet Infrastructure

About this domain

At Core Weave, infrastructure isn’t just a foundation, it’s a product.

We build scalable, high-performance computing systems that power the largest AI workloads in the world.

We’re looking for Engineers that thrive at the intersection of software and systems, deploying and managing large scale bare metal compute.

Within this domain, you’ll design and build software that manages complex infrastructure across globally distributed datacenters.

Working in Go, Python/Ansible, deep in Linux environments, observability/monitoring stacks, and leveraging technologies like g RPC and Kubernetes CRs/Controllers/Operators.

Whether you’re automating bare metal, building fleet lifecycle management services, solving multi-layer integration challenges, or observing our globally distributed fleet, your work will be critical to the company’s delivery of reliable and efficient infrastructure.

You’ll join a high-performing, communicative, and supportive team, solving complex problems at hyperscale, deploying purpose built AI across the world.

• What You’ll Do
• Design and implement solutions to problems of scale for multi-site deployment and management of Core Weave’s global server hardware fleet.
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs (g RPC/REST) in Go or Python to interact with Kubernetes and other infrastructure systems.
• Develop provisioning services, automation workflows, and fleet management tools that span from bare metal to container orchestration.
• Write and maintain Kubernetes custom controllers and operators to automate infrastructure behavior.
• Design and implement observability solutions for large-scale server monitoring to improve system stability and insight.
• Adapt and extend open source tooling to enhance visibility into system metrics, performance, and health.
• Create test plans, deployment automation, dashboards, alerts, and insights into our fleet operations.
• Resolve integration challenges across the entire infrastructure stack, from data center hardware to orchestration platforms.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.

Who You Are

• Minimum Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Python software development.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Argo, Flux, and Git Hub Actions.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience designing, implementing, and monitoring Kubernetes operators for custom resource definitions.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt.
• Experience with distributed cloud computing principles, including testing strategies, observability, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design.
• Experience implementing metrics pipelines, custom alerts, and monitoring strategies.
• Ability to break down complex problems into achievable tasks and collaborate with teammates to execute them.
• Willingness and ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Examples of teams you might join at Core Weave
• Fleet
• Provisioning

Automation: Automation is key to delivering reliable GPU compute to clients.

On this team you’ll write Go microservices and extend Kubernetes custom resources and operators to deliver and monitor cutting-edge computing platforms.

Ensuring new compute hardware is ready to deploy, and monitor existing hardware across our growing datacenter footprint.

• Fleet
• Management

Tools: Regular testing is critical to keeping our server hardware fleet running at peak performance.

On this team you will write and maintain the infrastructure for testing and maintaining Core Weave’s fleet.

We engineer solutions to problems at scale using a variety of technologies ranging from Ansible to custom Kubernetes controllers written in Go.

Fleet Monitoring & Analysis: Our customers’s AI workloads push our physical infrastructure to the limit.

This team is solving our fleet monitoring, visibility and self-healing problems at scale.

We develop, collect and correlate metrics to engineer observability solutions, utilizing technologies like Go, Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes.

Compensation

The base pay for this position ranges from $160,000/year to $225,000/year. Pay is based on location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by Core Weave
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 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
• Our Workplace

While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets.

New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month.

Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.

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• Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Core Weave 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), Core Weave 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.

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