Engineering Manager (Kubernetes Infrastructure, Bare Metal)

Join CoreWeave, a leading provider of high-performance computing solutions. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team responsible for building and operating Kubernetes infrastructure on bare metal. You will focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence, while mentoring engineers and strengthening cross-functional collaboration. This is a hands-on leadership role that requires strong technical depth in Kubernetes and distributed systems, as well as experience managing an infrastructure or platform engineering team.

• Lead a team responsible for building and operating Kubernetes infrastructure on bare metal, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Set clear goals, priorities, and execution plans for the team, and ensure reliable delivery against them, while improving the team's operational excellence across incident response and service ownership.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with compute, networking, storage, security, and product stakeholders, and help translate complex platform and infrastructure work into clear business and customer value.

• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs and priorities clearly
• Ability to coach engineers at different levels and create clarity in ambiguous or fast-scaling environments
• Strong technical depth in Kubernetes, distributed systems, and production infrastructure
• Strong partnership skills across engineering, product, and operations functions
• Familiarity with cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, upgrades, node operations, observability, and reliability engineering
• Experience managing an infrastructure, platform, or SRE-oriented engineering team
• Experience operating Kubernetes in complex environments, ideally including bare metal, hybrid, or highly performance-sensitive systems
• Track record of improving team execution, engineering quality, and operational maturity
• Experience leading incident response cultures and driving follow-through on reliability improvements
• 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
• Experience with GPU-heavy, HPC, or ML infrastructure environments
• Familiarity with Kubernetes networking, storage, and security primitives in production
• Experience with bare-metal infrastructure, server lifecycle operations, or low-level systems troubleshooting
• Experience building internal platform products used by other engineering teams or external customers
• Experience with infrastructure automation using tools such as Go, Python, controllers/operators, or configuration management systems