Backend Software Engineer @ CoreWeave

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CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.

What You’ll Do:

The Cloud Platform team is a high-visibility team responsible for the interfaces to our customer-facing products. We own our cloud developer experience, providing our customers observability into their cloud resources and enabling effective, cohesive interfaces to manage them via our Console UI, REST/gRPC API, Infrastructure-as-code, CLI and SDKs. We also own our billing platform and administrative tools for internal and external customers. We’re looking to grow our team across multiple experience levels to meet the growing demand for CoreWeave services.

As a Backend Software Engineer on the Cloud Platform team, you will play a key role in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining the backend systems described above. You’ll be working at the intersection of design, developer experience, and platform architecture to help scale CoreWeave’s Cloud Platform. Some of what you’ll work on:

Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across CoreWeave, including frontend engineers, product managers and designers to shape the team’s strategy and roadmap.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure and performant backend services, APIs, and databases for our next-generation systems.
Participate in design discussions and architectural decisions to drive technical solutions that align with our business goals.
Contribute to software development best-practices, including writing maintainable and testable code and participating in thorough code reviews.
Debug and resolve production issues in a timely manner, providing high-level support when necessary.
Work with a passionate team of engineers in an iterative, high-trust agile environment.

Minimum Qualifications:

3+ years of Professional experience building and maintaining production-grade backend services.
Strong proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or TypeScript.
Experience with authentication, authorization and security best practices.
Familiarity with observability practices including metrics and logging.
Solid understanding of CI/CD and software testing best-practices.
Solid understanding of database design and experience with SQL
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members.
Demonstrated ownership of code quality, performance, and maintainability from development through production.
Bachelors Degree in computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering or similar fields.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Kubernetes and a conceptual understanding of its major components.
Prior experience building reliable and scalable platform services that process large amounts of data.
Proven experience with Prometheus/PromQL, including optimizing time series queries, and/or integrating Prometheus with large-scale systems for monitoring and analytics.
Experience with managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)
Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools and practices.

PLEASE NOTE: We are hiring across multiple levels for this team. We use our interview process to gather the signals we need to determine leveling (i.e. Engineer; Senior Engineer; Staff Engineer).

The base salary range for this role is $92,000 to $220,000. 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.

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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: [email protected].

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 a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.

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