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Senior Production Engineer

CoreWeave
Sunnyvale, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/10/2026
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.About CoreWeaveCoreWeave 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 performant, efficient, and resilient accelerated-compute infrastructure.As one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies of 2024, CoreWeave operates a rapidly expanding footprint of data centers across the US and Europe. We thrive in environments where adaptability, resilience, and curiosity drive innovation. If you enjoy building and improving distributed systems, solving hard production problems, and operating cloud infrastructure at meaningful scale — you'll feel right at home here.About the RoleProduction Engineering ensures CoreWeave's cloud delivers world-class reliability, performance, and operational excellence. We are hiring a Senior Production Engineer to take direct, hands-on ownership of critical tooling that drives reliability and delivery success.In this role, you will work broadly across the cloud stack designing, implementing, deploying, and operating systems that improve delivery velocity, service availability, and operational safety. You'll be responsible for leading end-to-end technical projects, maintaining long-lived systems the team owns, and strengthening our operational foundations through durable engineering investments.This is a role for someone who enjoys building, debugging, and operating production systems. You will collaborate closely with service owners, but your primary impact comes from the reliability, quality, and maturity of the systems you deliver and maintain over time.What You'll DoTake hands-on ownership of critical systems and frameworks, driving their architecture, implementation, and long-term evolution.Lead end-to-end delivery of engineering projects that improve availability, scalability, operational automation, and failure recovery.Build and maintain observability, alerting, automated remediation, and resilience testing for the systems you support.Participate in incident response as a subject-matter expert; drive deep root-cause investigations and implement lasting fixes.Improve runbooks, sources of truth, deployment workflows, and operational tooling to harden production readiness.Eliminate single points of failure and reduce operational toil through automation, refactors, and system redesigns.Ship production code regularly in Python, Go, or similar languages, and participate in on-call rotations.Maintain and mature long-term projects and frameworks owned by the team, ensuring they remain reliable, well-instrumented, and easy to operate.Collaborate with platform teams to ensure new features and services integrate cleanly with our reliability best-practices and tooling.What You've Worked On (Minimum Qualifications)7 years of engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud platforms.Demonstrated ability to debug complex production issues end-to-end, across services, infrastructure layers, and automation.Strong programming or scripting ability (Python, Go, or similar), with experience shipping and operating production services and tools.Deep knowledge of cloud-native technologies and distributed system patterns, particularly Kubernetes.Experience with modern observability stacks: metrics, tracing, structured logs, SLOs/SLIs, and incident lifecycle practices.A track record of successfully delivering hands-on reliability improvements through engineering execution.Preferred QualificationsExperience building internal tooling, frameworks, or automation that supports high-availability cloud operations.Familiarity with DR/BCP, service tiering, capacity planning, or chaos engineering.Background operating or building large-scale AI or GPU-accelerated infrastructure.Experience maintaining multi-year ownership of foundational production systems.Why CoreWeaveAt CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast. You'll join a team that values curiosity, ownership, and creative problem-solving. Production Engineering sits at the intersection of reliability and AI infrastructure, building systems that enable the world's most powerful AI cloud.Core ValuesBe Curious at Your CoreAct Like an OwnerEmpower EmployeesDeliver Best-in-Class Client ExperiencesAchieve More TogetherBenefits100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverageLife, short- and long-term disability insurance401(k) with generous employer matchFlexible PTO and childcare support through KinsideCatered lunch daily (for office-based employees), weekly massages (NY/NJ)Dynamic, collaborative culture focused on innovation and learningCalifornia Consumer Privacy Act — California applicants onlyCoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusiveness. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or age.What We OfferThe 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, including:Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeaveCompany-paid Life Insurance Voluntary supplemental life insurance Short and long-term disability insurance Flexible Spending AccountHealth Savings AccountTuition Reimbursement Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health Family-Forming support provided by CarrotPaid Parental Leave Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside401(k) with a generous employer matchFlexible PTOCatered lunch each day in our office and data center locationsA casual work environmentA work culture focused on innovative disruptionOur WorkplaceWhile we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaborationCalifornia Consumer Privacy Act - California applicants onlyCoreWeave 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 ComplianceThis 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.

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