Staff Software Engineer (Storage Control Plane)

Join CoreWeave, a leading provider of high-performance AI infrastructure. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and operating the control plane for our AI storage platform. You will collaborate with teams across infrastructure, compute, and platform to ensure our storage services scale automatically and seamlessly while maximizing performance and reliability. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and make a significant impact in the AI industry.

• Design and implement a highly scalable multi-tenant control plane that supports CoreWeave’s growing AI storage and cloud infrastructure needs.
• Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage, distributed file system and integrate dedicated storage clusters into diverse customer environments.
• Work with technologies such as RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, SPDK, and distributed filesystems to optimize storage performance and efficiency.

• Experience with one or more storage protocols (e.g. S3, NFS) and file systems such as Ceph, DAOS, or similar
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architecture
• Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, C++, or Rust
• Strong hands-on experience with object storage or distributed filesystems in production environments
• 10+ years of experience working in storage systems engineering or infrastructure
• Clear communicator, able to work collaboratively across teams and share technical insights effectively
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed, high-performance environments
• Familiarity with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines (e.g., ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Wondering if you’re a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk