Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™, delivering a platform that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. As a Senior Software Engineer II on the AI Workload Orchestration team, you will design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native services for AI workload orchestration and scheduling, while also owning platform components and driving performance improvements.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native services for AI workload orchestration and scheduling
- Own one or more platform components end-to-end, including design, implementation, testing, and on-call support
- Improve scheduling latency, cluster utilization, and workload reliability through metrics-driven engineering
- Contribute to architectural discussions across services and influence design decisions within the platform
- Work closely with adjacent teams (CKS, infrastructure, managed inference) to ensure clean interfaces and integrations
- Mentor junior engineers and raise the quality bar for code, design, and operations
Skills
- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering
- Strong experience building production systems in Go (Python or C++ a plus)
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, APIs, controllers, and operating services in production
- Experience working with scheduling, resource management, or quota-based systems
- Proven ability to improve system reliability and performance using data and operational metrics
- Comfortable owning services in production and participating in on-call rotations
- Experience with Kubernetes-native orchestration frameworks such as Kueue, Volcano, Ray, Kubeflow, or Argo Workflows
- Familiarity with GPU-based workloads, ML training, or inference pipelines
- Knowledge of scheduling concepts such as quota enforcement, pre-emption, and backfilling
- Experience with reliability practices including SLOs, alerting, and incident response
- Exposure to AI infrastructure, HPC, or large-scale distributed compute environments
Benefits
- 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
- 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
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