Engineering Manager, Observability
Lead a team in building and scaling observability systems to enhance production visibility and reliability at CoreWeave.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
10% coding — mostly leadership/strategy
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Engineering Manager for Observability at CoreWeave leads a team focused on developing and maintaining observability systems that enhance the performance and reliability of production environments. This role requires expertise in distributed systems, observability platforms, and engineering management, particularly in scaling telemetry systems and improving operational visibility. Ideal candidates have a strong background in software engineering and experience managing senior engineers, making this position suitable for those with significant technical and leadership experience. CoreWeave's fast-paced, growth-oriented environment emphasizes collaboration and innovation.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Coreweave's careers page October 27, 2026.
- Salary band is in line with the typical range for Management roles (median ~$172,000).
- Starts above 41% of 34 comparable lead management roles that list Kubernetes we track (median $190,450 across 22 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
- Kubernetes appears in 5.2% of 1175 comparable lead management roles; OpenTelemetry appears in 0.5% of 1175 comparable lead management roles.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Coreweave lists $182,000–$242,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Engineering Manager, Observability role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Grafana, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coreweave targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Engineering Manager, Observability role at Coreweave.
From the original posting
What You’ll Do:
The Observability Engineering organization at CoreWeave is responsible for the platforms and practices that help engineers understand, operate, and improve production systems at scale. This team owns and evolves the foundations for metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and observability reliability, enabling teams to detect issues quickly, troubleshoot complex distributed systems, and operate AI infrastructure with confidence. As CoreWeave continues to scale, observability plays a critical role in delivering reliable platform experiences, improving engineering velocity, and maintaining operational excellence across a rapidly growing cloud environment.
About the role:
CoreWeave is seeking a Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. In this role, you will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure. You will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility. This role combines technical leadership, operational ownership, and team management to ensure observability platforms scale with business and customer needs.
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale
- 2+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads
- Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, or alerting in distributed systems
- Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design
- Experience scaling telemetry systems including storage backends, and query layers
- Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and cost
- Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption
- Experience hiring and managing engineering teams
Preferred:
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing tools
- Experience operating cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments
- Experience supporting large-scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure
- Familiarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systems
- Experience scaling platforms in high-growth environments
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 solving complex systems problems across infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity
- You’re curious about improving observability, debugging workflows, and large-scale distributed systems
- You’re an expert in balancing scalability, reliability, and cost in production environments
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:
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities 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 $182,000 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).
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