Staff Production Engineer

What You’ll Do

The Production Engineering Tools team builds and operates foundational platforms that make CoreWeave’s cloud reliable, observable, and scalable. The team owns tooling and frameworks that accelerate datacenter delivery, reduce operational toil, and enable reliability to scale by default as CoreWeave rapidly expands its global footprint.

About the Role

We are hiring a Staff Production Engineer to design, build, and own the foundational platforms and frameworks that underpin operational excellence across CoreWeave. In this role, you will combine deep technical leadership with hands-on engineering to create systems that improve availability, resiliency, and delivery velocity at scale.

This is a high-impact role with broad organizational influence. You will develop a deep understanding of CoreWeave’s infrastructure and services, shape architecture and tooling decisions, and partner closely with service owners to operationalize reliability through automation and paved paths rather than manual process or advocacy. Success requires the ability to pivot quickly between hot incidents, multi-team programs, and initiatives at all levels of the organization.

You will design, build, and own foundational platforms and frameworks from architecture through adoption and operation. You will lead technical strategy and execution for internal tooling that reduces manual operations, improves delivery velocity, and supports CoreWeave’s revenue growth through faster, more reliable datacenter delivery.

You will partner with service owners and platform teams to translate reliability and operational requirements into automation, self-service capabilities, and opinionated paved paths. You will build and evolve systems for observability, alerting, automated remediation, resiliency testing, and authoritative sources of truth, operationalizing best practices through tooling rather than manual enforcement.

You will participate in incident response for critical outages with the explicit goal of improving systems, tooling, and defaults to reduce future operational load—not as a long-term escalation path. You will ship production code, participate in on-call rotations as needed, and mentor engineers on platform ownership, operational design, and sustainable production practices.

Who You Are

• 10+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud platforms at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose and resolve complex production failures across services, infrastructure, and automation layers.
• Strong programming experience (Python, Go, or similar) with a history of shipping and operating production systems.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native platforms and distributed systems, especially Kubernetes.
• Advanced experience with observability and incident practices, including metrics, tracing, structured logs, SLIs/SLOs, and PIRs.
• Proven ability to lead large technical efforts and influence outcomes across teams without direct authority.
• Track record of delivering durable, platform-driven improvements that reduce operational risk and scale with organizational growth
  
  

Preferred

• Ownership of foundational internal platforms or frameworks used broadly across an organization
• Experience with service tiering, disaster recovery or business continuity planning, chaos engineering, or structured resilience programs
• Background operating large-scale AI/cloud infrastructure
• Experience guiding organizations through rapid scale while maintaining operational quality and discipline
  
  

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 might be a great fit if:

• You love owning critical systems that must work reliably at massive scale
• You build complex, scalable, reliable systems from scratch
• You are curious about how to design platforms that make the right operational behavior the easy default
• You are an expert at thinking in terms of failure modes, blast radius, and long-term operational risk
• You care deeply about operational excellence and want to shape how reliability is practiced at scale

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 $188,000 to $275,000. 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).