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Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Storage

Location
San Francisco, CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA
Compensation
$165k–$220k/yr
Level
senior
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 1 year ago

First seen on Joblaze 6 months ago

Last verified on the company career page 21 hours ago

Requirements

Experience
7+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree

Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.

Benefits

401k Match Education Budget Flexible PTO Equity/Stock Options Remote Work Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about 6 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Coreweave's careers page October 27, 2026.
  • Salary band is below the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
  • Starts above 20% of 65 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $182,000 across 21 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
  • Kubernetes appears in 13.9% of 552 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States; NVIDIA GPUs appears in 0.4% of 552 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Storage role remote?
It's hybrid — Coreweave expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA.
What's the salary range?
Coreweave lists $165,000–$220,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 7 years of relevant experience for this Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Storage role.
Where is the role based?
Coreweave is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Kubernetes, NVIDIA GPUs, cloud computing, high-performance compute, storage solutions.
What seniority level is this role?
Coreweave targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Storage role at Coreweave.

From the original posting

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 Customer Experience (CX) Organization at CoreWeave is dedicated to ensuring every client running AI workloads at scale has a seamless, reliable, and high-performance experience. This team supports the infrastructure that powers the AI revolution—working across data centers, hardware systems, and customer workloads to maintain the integrity of our cloud platform. The CX organization aligns closely with the internal and customer engineering teams, offering valuable insights from the field and having the chance to contribute to the CoreWeave product roadmap and development.

About the role

Training and inference at CoreWeave's scale depend on storage keeping thousands of GPUs fed. As a Senior Specialist Field Engineer for Storage, you'll help customers get the most from shared file storage, object storage, local NVMe, and dedicated storage built for a single customer. You'll work closely with the Storage product and engineering teams, and what you learn in the field will help shape what they build.

In this role, you will:

  • Design storage architecture for complex customers (shared filesystems, object storage, caching, multi-tenant isolation, cross-region data), including how it fails and what each failure affects.
  • Troubleshoot problems from the application's I/O pattern down through the NFS client, the CSI driver, the storage network, and the storage cluster itself.
  • Find where the product falls short for real workloads and work the gap through with engineering, as an extended member of the Storage team.
  • Lead customer technical overviews, proofs of concept, and customer workshops, with occasional travel.

Who You Are:

  • B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years building or operating large-scale storage systems, as a storage, systems, or software engineer, or in a deeply technical storage-focused field role.
  • Solid working knowledge of NFS (v3 and v4, mount options such as nconnect, failure modes) and S3-compatible object storage.
  • Hands-on experience with a distributed or parallel filesystem such as VAST, WEKA, Lustre, or Spectrum Scale.
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes storage: CSI drivers, PVs, PVCs, and StorageClasses, and how to troubleshoot them.
  • Very comfortable benchmarking with tools like fio and reading the results, and telling a metadata-bound workload from a bandwidth-bound one.
  • You explain technical problems clearly to engineers and executives, and you build trust with customers.

Preferred

  • Debugging NFS over TCP at scale, including storage problems that turn out to be network problems (retransmits, stale routes, overlay versus underlay).
  • Experience with storage for AI workloads: streaming training data, checkpointing at scale, and read caching.
  • Diagnosing failures that only show up at scale, such as lock exhaustion under heavy concurrency or rename races corrupting checkpoints.
  • Comfortable reading storage system source code to tie production behavior to the code, and able to fix small bugs.
  • Contributions to storage open source (kernel NFS, Lustre, Ceph, CSI drivers) or published work on filesystem design or storage performance.

You'll fit here if...

  • You'd rather measure the I/O pattern than guess at it.
  • You're comfortable saying "I don't know yet," and then you go find out.
  • You like working on a hard problem alongside the customer and the engineering team, and you share the credit.

Wondering if you're a good fit?

We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who bring their own experiences to our teams - even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. If some of this describes you, we'd love to talk.

  • You love to help solve challenging technical problems
  • You’re curious about the latest and greatest technologies in the AI space
  • You’re an expert in managing conflict and achieving mutually beneficial technical outcomes

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 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 $182,000 - $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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