Director of Software Engineering

What You’ll Do:

CoreWeave is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead the development of our Observability product suite for AI/ML workloads. In this highly technical and strategic role, you will lead a world-class team to design, build, and operate observability solutions at scale. You'll collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to ensure our Observability delivers a unified experience across CoreWeave products.

About the role:

• Define and drive CoreWeave’s Observability roadmap and strategy.
• Lead and grow a high-performing team of software engineers and managers.
• Design and implement advanced solutions, including low-latency, high-scale Observability pipelines across all products.
• Build solutions that offer insights to customers for rapid troubleshooting of their AI workloads.
• Champion initiatives to improve reliability, durability, and self-healing capabilities of Observability metrics, and assume operational responsibilities.
• Develop operational review practices to assess performance against targets and iterating on those targets.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices in product engineering, fostering a customer-focused approach to systems design and technical excellence.

Who You Are:

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, or cloud systems.
• 5+ years in engineering leadership roles, including hiring, scaling, and mentoring teams.
• Proven track record of building and managing large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey storage engineering strategies and practices to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Prior experience in building telemetry solutions, such as logging, metrics and tracing, would be a plus.
• Understanding of cloud computing infrastructure using Kubernetes would be a plus.

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’ve worked at a cloud provider or hyperscaler and understand the scale and complexity.
• You’re familiar with telemetry, or multi-tenant compute environments.
• You’ve scaled infrastructure for cloud services in production.
• You’re an expert at balancing cost, performance, and reliability in high-demand systems.

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 $206,000 to $303,000 . 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)