Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Infrastructure · CoreWeave

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:51:59 GMT
Engineering

CoreWeave · New York, NY / Bellevue, WA · $165,000 to $242,000 · hybrid

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform. You will design and operate highly available, multi-region systems, ensuring our services meet strict uptime and latency targets.

Day-to-day, you’ll work on scaling infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, and hardening our security posture. You’ll play a key role in evolving our DevSecOps practices while partnering closely with engineering teams to ensure services are built for reliability from day one.

We operate with production-grade discipline, supporting mission-critical services with stringent uptime requirements and a focus on automation, observability, and resilience.

The Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team in the Data Infrastructure organization is responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of the company’s data platform. The team builds and operates the foundational systems that power data ingestion, transformation, analytics, and internal AI workloads at scale.

About the role:

5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles

Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerized software services, including cluster design, operations, and troubleshooting in production environments

Strong experience building and operating CI/CD systems, including tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions

Proven experience owning production systems with high availability requirements (≥99.99% uptime), including incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and postmortems

Hands-on experience designing and operating geo-replicated, multi-region, active-active systems, including traffic routing, failover strategies, and data consistency tradeoffs

Strong experience building and owning observability components, including metrics, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Helm, Terraform, Pulumi) and automated environment provisioning

Strong understanding of system performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed systems

Experience implementing and operating security best practices in cloud-native environments (e.g., secrets management, network policies, vulnerability scanning)

Preferred:

Experience operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads (e.g., Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink)

Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)

Experience working in regulated environments with compliance frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, or SOX

Background in building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure

Wondering if you’re a good fit?

We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren’t a 100% skill or experience match.

Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.

You love building highly reliable systems that operate at scale

You’re curious about how to continuously improve system resilience, security, and operations

You’re an expert in diagnosing and solving complex distributed systems problems

Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning.

Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

Be Curious at Your Core

Act Like an Owner

Empower Employees

Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences

Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.

As we get set for take off, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too.

Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $165,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation.

In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

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 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

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.

California Consumer Privacy Act - California applicants only

CoreWeave 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), CoreWeave 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.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information.

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without restrictions, or (C) otherwise exempt from the export regulations.

If you are not a U.S. person, you will be required to provide documentation of your eligibility to access the export controlled information before being considered for this position.

Please note that CoreWeave is subject to the requirements of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the U.S. Department of State's International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the export control requirements and that you will comply with them.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the export control requirements, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.