Senior Manager, Observability

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 .

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What You’ll Do

The Observability Engineering organization at CoreWeave is responsible for the platforms and practices that help engineers understand, operate, and improve production systems at scale. This team owns and evolves the foundations for metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and observability reliability, enabling teams to detect issues quickly, troubleshoot complex distributed systems, and operate AI infrastructure with confidence. As CoreWeave continues to scale, observability plays a critical role in delivering reliable platform experiences, improving engineering velocity, and maintaining operational excellence across a rapidly growing cloud environment.

About the role

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. In this role, you will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure. You will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility. This role combines technical leadership, operational ownership, and team management to ensure observability platforms scale with business and customer needs.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale
• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads
• Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting in distributed systems
• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design
• Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers
• Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and cost
• Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption
• Experience hiring and managing engineering teams

Preferred

• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing tools
• Experience operating cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure
• Familiarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systems
• Experience scaling platforms in high-growth environments

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.

• You love solving complex systems problems across infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity
• You’re curious about improving observability, debugging workflows, and large-scale distributed systems
• You’re an expert in balancing scalability, reliability, and cost in production environments

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:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities 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 zł369,000 to zł493,000. 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).

To fulfill our obligation to protect client data, successful applicants offered employment with CoreWeave will be required to complete a basic criminal record check, conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results

What We Offer

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including

• Family-level Medical Insurance
• Family-level Dental Insurance
• Generous Pension Contribution
• Life Assurance at 4x Salary
• Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Work culture focused on innovative disruption

Benefits may vary by location.

Equal Opportunity

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.

Recruitment Agencies

CoreWeave does not accept speculative CVs. Any unsolicited CVs received will be treated as the property of CoreWeave and your Terms & Conditions associated with the use of CVs will be considered null and void.

Any unsolicited CVs sent by your company to us – that is to say, in any situation where we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy – will be considered by us to be a “free gift”, leaving us liable for no fees whatsoever should we choose to contact the candidate directly and engage the candidate’s services, and will in no way establish any prior claim by your company to representation of that candidate should the candidate’s details also be submitted by any other party.

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.