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CoreWeave

Senior Systems Engineer, Virtualization

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about 2 hours ago
Bellevue, WA, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$182k - $242k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design secure execution environments using containerd, runc, gVisor, Kata Containers, KubeVirt, and KVM/QEMU.
  • Build GPU-aware runtime infrastructure supporting VFIO, Kata, NVIDIA GPU Operator, and PCIe passthrough for multi-tenant AI workloads.
  • Improve Linux kernel and hypervisor performance through optimization of scheduling, memory management, I/O, NUMA locality, and virtualization primitives.
  • Debug complex interactions across Linux, KVM, GPU drivers, firmware, and Kubernetes.
  • Develop observability and debugging tooling using eBPF, perf, tracepoints, and kernel tracing infrastructure.
  • Improve container and VM startup performance, resource isolation, and runtime efficiency for latency-sensitive AI workloads.
  • Extend virtualization infrastructure supporting virtio devices, IOMMU, SR-IOV, mediated devices, nested virtualization, and hardware passthrough.
  • Profile production systems and build performance analysis tooling to identify bottlenecks across various components.
  • Collaborate with security, platform, networking, and GPU infrastructure teams.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in building production systems software, platform infrastructure, virtualization, or Linux-based distributed systems.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux systems, including namespaces, cgroups, scheduling, memory management, and networking.
  • Experience with virtualization technologies such as KVM, QEMU, VFIO, and Kata Containers.
  • Experience building or operating Kubernetes platforms and container runtimes at scale.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Rust, C/C++, or a combination thereof.
  • Comfortable debugging production failures across hardware, operating systems, and distributed infrastructure.
  • Experience profiling and optimizing system performance using tools like perf and eBPF.

Benefits

  • 100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Company-paid life insurance and voluntary supplemental life insurance.
  • Short and long-term disability insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account.
  • Tuition reimbursement and participation in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
  • Mental wellness benefits and family-forming support.
  • Paid parental leave and flexible childcare support.
  • 401(k) with a generous employer match.
  • Flexible PTO and catered lunch each day.
  • Casual work environment and innovative work culture.