Staff Software Engineer (Cluster Orchestration)

Join CoreWeave, a leading cloud provider for AI workloads. As a Staff Software Engineer in the Cluster Orchestration team, you will play a key role in advancing our orchestration platform, ensuring seamless and efficient workload management across massive GPU clusters. You will define architectural direction, own critical parts of the platform, and mentor senior engineers. This is an opportunity to shape the future of AI cloud infrastructure.

• Advancing CoreWeave’s orchestration platform, including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond.
• Defining architectural direction, owning critical parts of the orchestration platform, and driving cross-org initiatives.
• Mentoring senior engineers, establishing org-wide best practices in reliability and observability, and ensuring the orchestration layer evolves to meet the demands of next-generation AI workloads.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Proven track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
• Experience setting technical direction and influencing cross-team architecture
• Advanced proficiency in Go and distributed systems design and cloud-native development
• Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals and cloud-native development
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, EE, or related field
• Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals
• Familiarity with orchestration and workflow technologies such as Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, or Argo Workflows
• Experience with distributed workloads, GPU-based applications, or ML pipelines
• Knowledge of scheduling concepts like quota enforcement, pre-emption, and scaling strategies
• Exposure to reliability practices including SLOs, alarms, and post-incident reviews
• Experience with AI infrastructure and workloads (ML training, inference, or HPC)
• Ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate organizational standards
• You thrive on solving problems that balance cost, performance, and reliability in high-demand environments
• You’re curious about orchestration beyond SUNK and how to evolve it for next-generation AI
• You love defining long-term architecture for systems at global scale
• You’re an expert at mentorship, architecture, and operational excellence across teams