principal software engineering Principal Engineer tech_leadership
$182,000 – $242,000
USD per year

About this role

CoreWeave is hiring a principal-level Principal Engineer in the software engineering function based in New York City, NY | Sunnyvale, CA | Bellevue, WA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Go, C, Bash. Compensation is listed at $182,000–$242,000 per year.

Role
Principal Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
principal
Track
Tech leadership
Employment
Full-time
Location
New York City, NY | Sunnyvale, CA | Bellevue, WA
Department
Technology

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Job description

from CoreWeave careers
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

As a Senior Engineer in Compute Services, you will be responsible for building fault-tolerant and reliable infrastructure to support both our internal processes and our customer platform. If you’re passionate about GitOps, KubeOps, DevOps—really, all the ops—this role could be a great fit for you!

  • Design, develop, and maintain automated tooling to provision Kubernetes control planes on bare-metal
  • Use Python, Golang, and Bash to create tooling and go operators
  • Perform day 2 lifecycle tasks and maintenance on running clusters
  • Identify gaps and implement fault-tolerant architectures
  • Optimize reliability using the Grafana ecosystem
  • Design automated testing to validate build quality and stability
  • Participate in an on-call rotation every two months serving as point of contact

Who You Are

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