Senior Manager, Production Engineering
Lead and expand the SRE team at CoreWeave, ensuring reliability and performance in a large-scale cloud infrastructure.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
AI in the day-to-day
Champion automation-first practices, leveraging AI to minimize toil and manual interventions.
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
Not disclosed in this posting: work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Senior Manager of Production Engineering at CoreWeave is responsible for leading the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to enhance the reliability and performance of the cloud platform. This role requires expertise in automation, distributed systems, and incident management, utilizing tools like Terraform and Kubernetes. Ideal candidates will have extensive leadership experience in cloud environments and a strong technical background, particularly in AI infrastructure. CoreWeave emphasizes a culture of operational excellence and continuous learning, making it suitable for those who thrive in dynamic, high-growth settings.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Coreweave's career page.
- Coreweave has 298 other open roles including Senior Special Projects Manager, Account Manager, Engaged - Austin, Engineering Manager, Storage.
- 2580 active Kubernetes roles on Joblaze right now.
- 1682 active AI roles on Joblaze right now.
- 1148 active Terraform roles on Joblaze right now.
- Salary band is above the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
- Pays more than 81% of the 1275 salaried Kubernetes roles we track (median $165,000). See Kubernetes salary trends
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Coreweave lists $207,000–$275,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Senior Manager, Production Engineering role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud infrastructure.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coreweave targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Manager, Production Engineering role at Coreweave.
From the original posting
About the Role
As we continue to scale the CoreWeave Cloud Platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational efficiency in a live production environment is mission-critical. We’re seeking a Senior Manager of Production Engineering to lead and expand our SRE team and practices. This leader will play a key role in shaping the resilience and reliability of our platform, partnering closely with engineering and product teams to build systems and services that are secure, scalable, and highly efficient.
You will champion a culture of operational excellence, automation, and ownership, empowering our cloud platform to scale confidently and operate with agility.
What You’ll Do
- Contribute and execute the SRE vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large-scale, distributed cloud infrastructure.
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of SREs, promoting a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Champion automation-first practices, leveraging AI, tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code to minimize toil and manual interventions.
- Establish and evolve Operational Excellence best practices ensuring the platform is proactive, and propagates organizational learning.
- Drive initiatives for incident management, postmortem culture, root cause analysis, and system hardening.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer support teams to build scalable, resilient, and self-healing systems.
- Evolve our on-call strategy and processes to support a 24x7, globally distributed platform with minimal disruptions.
Who You Are
We’re looking for a thoughtful leader who blends technical depth with strategic vision, and thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments. If you value clarity over complexity, mentorship over management, and resilience over rigidity, you’ll fit right in.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
- 10+ years in a leadership or senior management role at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or high-growth tech company.
- Experience hiring, developing, and managing geographically distributed 24x7 engineering teams.
- Experience in designing and implementing incident management processes including on-call rotations, escalation paths, postmortems, and SLO/SLA framework.
- Solid foundation in systems engineering, with a deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and storage architecture.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence product, platform, hardware, and security teams.
Additional Qualifications
- Experience building platform tooling and internal developer portals to improve engineering velocity and operational visibility.
- Familiarity with GPU-accelerated workloads, including resource isolation, scheduling, and performance tuning.
- Experience working in AI infrastructure environments supporting training or inference at scale.
- Background in compliance, reliability risk modeling, or operational maturity assessments (e.g., RTO/RPO, chaos engineering).
- Prior leadership experience in bare metal infrastructure environments (e.g., custom data centers, edge compute, HPC clusters).
- Working knowledge of DPUs, service mesh architectures, and multi-tenant security models.
The base salary range for this role is $207,000 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).
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. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:
- 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
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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations
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: careers@coreweave.com.
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.