Posted by employer 7 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 6 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 3 days ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 3–5 years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 6 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Coreweave's careers page October 29, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 9% of 162 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $173,958 across 64 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 41.2% of 520 comparable senior backend roles in United States; Istio appears in 0.2% of 520 comparable senior backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration role remote?
- It's hybrid — Coreweave expects some on-site time in Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA.
- What's the salary range?
- Coreweave lists $139,000–$204,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- 3–5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration role.
- Where is the role based?
- Coreweave is hiring for this position in Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Argo Workflows, C++, Go, Grafana, Istio, Knative.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Coreweave targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration role at Coreweave.
From the original posting
CoreWeave is the AI Hyperscaler™, delivering a cloud platform of cutting edge services powering the next wave of AI. Our technology provides enterprises and leading AI labs with the most performant, efficient and resilient solutions for accelerated computing. Since 2017, CoreWeave has operated a growing footprint of data centers covering every region of the US and across Europe. CoreWeave was ranked as one of the TIME100 most influential companies of 2024.
As the leader in the industry, we thrive in an environment where adaptability and resilience are key. Our culture offers career-defining opportunities for those who excel amid change and challenge. If you’re someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and is eager to make a significant impact, CoreWeave is the place for you. Join us, and be part of a team solving some of the most exciting challenges in the industry.
CoreWeave powers the creation and delivery of the intelligence that drives innovation.
About the role
As part of the Cluster Orchestration team, you will play a key role in advancing CoreWeave’s orchestration platform including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond our Kubernetes-native foundation that powers AI training and inference at scale. This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the AI cloud: ensuring workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters. By building the systems that eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and create new orchestration capabilities, you will directly empower customers to innovate faster and push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
What You’ll Do
As a Senior Software Engineer I (IC3), you will own multiple services within the orchestration platform. You’ll lead design/code reviews, decompose projects into milestones, and drive measurable improvements in reliability and performance. You’ll define SLIs/SLOs for your services, strengthen operational practices, and mentor IC1/IC2 engineers. Your work will ensure customers see consistent improvements in throughput, latency, and system resilience.
Who You Are
- ~3–5 years of professional software engineering experience building distributed systems or cloud services.
- Strong coding in Go (Python or C++ a plus) with solid CS fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience running Kubernetes at production scale.
- Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Proven ability to improve service reliability and performance using metrics (P95/P99 latency, throughput, error budgets).
Preferred
- Familiarity with orchestration and workflow technologies such as Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, or Argo Workflows
- Experience with distributed workloads, GPU-based applications, or ML pipelines.
- Knowledge of scheduling concepts like quota enforcement, pre-emption, and scaling strategies.
- Exposure to reliability practices including SLOs, alarms, and post-incident reviews.
The base salary range for this role is $139,000 to $204,000. 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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