Staff Engineer, Data Services · CoreWeave

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:53:23 GMT
Engineering

CoreWeave · Bellevue, WA / Sunnyvale, CA · $188,000 to $250,000 · hybrid

The Data Platform Team at CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Software Engineer with specialization in database and stream processing to help fulfill the goal of our global datastore strategy and establish communication models for our data flow.

As a member of the Data Platform Team, you will have the opportunity to drive technical decision-making to accelerate delivery, mentor engineers, and grow team capability. You will champion event-driven architecture adoption and build consensus across the organization. You will participate in the company's data infra strategy planning and initiatives.

Key responsibilities include:

Design and implement the platform to deliver data to teams with a focus on providing managed solutions through APIs.

Develop a stream processing architecture and solve for scalability and reliability.

Improve the performance, security, reliability, and scalability of our data platforms, and related services and participate in the teams on-call rotation.

Establish guidelines, guard rails for data access and storage for stakeholder teams.

Ensure compliance with standards for data protection regulation.

To be successful in this role, you will need to have 12+ years of software engineering experience. You should understand the CAP theorem and concurrency models, and be able to clearly define data models and establish guidelines around data management. You should be familiar with one of the distributed NewSQL datastores such as CockroachDB, TiDB, YDB, Yugabyte and/or stream processing tools such as NATS or Kafka.

Additionally, you should have experience with designing and operating systems at scale, API designs and microservices, and Kubernetes and have interest or experience with using it for event-driven and/or stateful orchestration. You should be excited to have the opportunity to contribute to a Kubernetes operator in order to manage data systems.

The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $250,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.