What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Observability position at CoreWeave?
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 Observability team builds and operates CoreWeave’s logging, tracing, and metrics platforms, along with the high-throughput data pipelines that power them. This team enables both internal engineers and customers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AI workloads running on GPU-dense infrastructure at massive scale.
About The Role
As a Software Engineer on the Observability team, you will design, build, and maintain scalable systems that process and surface telemetry data across distributed environments. You’ll contribute production-quality code in languages like Go and Python, while improving system reliability through enhanced monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices. Day to day, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to implement observability best practices, support production systems, and help optimize performance across large-scale infrastructure. You will also participate in on-call rotations and contribute to continuous improvements based on real-world system behavior.
Who You Are
About
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:
The base salary range for this role is $109,000 to $145,000. 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, including:
While 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 collaboration.
California Consumer Privacy Act - California applicants only
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.
What You’ll Do
The Observability team builds and operates CoreWeave’s logging, tracing, and metrics platforms, along with the high-throughput data pipelines that power them. This team enables both internal engineers and customers to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AI workloads running on GPU-dense infrastructure at massive scale.
About The Role
As a Software Engineer on the Observability team, you will design, build, and maintain scalable systems that process and surface telemetry data across distributed environments. You’ll contribute production-quality code in languages like Go and Python, while improving system reliability through enhanced monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices. Day to day, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to implement observability best practices, support production systems, and help optimize performance across large-scale infrastructure. You will also participate in on-call rotations and contribute to continuous improvements based on real-world system behavior.
Who You Are
- 2 years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related field
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Go)
- Experience working with Kubernetes, containerization, and microservices architectures
- Experience participating in on-call rotations, including triaging and escalating production issues
- Hands-on experience using observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) to debug distributed systems
- Experience operating observability platforms or databases (e.g., ClickHouse, Elastic, Loki, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Thanos, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
- Experience with modern testing frameworks and deployment strategies (e.g., canary, blue-green)
- Experience with data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kafka Connect)
- Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure, including GPU-based systems, large-scale training/inference workloads, or MLOps tooling
About
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:
- Be Curious at Your Core
- Act Like an Owner
- Empower Employees
- Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
- Achieve More Together
The base salary range for this role is $109,000 to $145,000. 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, including:
- 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
While 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 collaboration.
California Consumer Privacy Act - California applicants only
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.
Salary : $109,000 - $145,000