About the role
As part of the Cluster Orchestration team, you will play a key role in advancing CoreWeave’s orchestration platform including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond, our Kubernetes-native foundation that powers AI training and inference at scale. This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the AI cloud: ensuring workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters. By building the systems that eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and create new orchestration capabilities, you will directly empower customers to innovate faster and push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
Responsibilities
- Define architectural direction and own critical parts of the orchestration platform and other managed services.
- Drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling at hyperscale.
- Mentor senior engineers and establish org-wide best practices in reliability and observability.
- Ensure CoreWeave’s orchestration layer evolves to meet the demands of next-generation AI workloads.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Proven track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
- Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals and cloud-native development.
- Advanced proficiency in Go and distributed systems design and cloud-native development.
- Experience setting technical direction and influencing cross-team architecture.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS, EE, or related field.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with orchestration and workflow technologies such as Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, or Argo Workflows.
- Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals.
- 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.
Conditions
- The base salary range for this role is $185,000 to $275,000.
- Total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program.
- Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% paid by CoreWeave), company-paid life insurance, short and long-term disability insurance, flexible spending account, health savings account, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase program, mental wellness benefits, family-forming support, paid parental leave, childcare support, 401(k) with employer match, flexible PTO, catered lunch, casual work environment, and a culture focused on innovative disruption.