CoreWeave

Senior Software Engineer, Sandboxes & Virtualization

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

$182k - $242k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement secure execution environments for containerized and virtualized workloads.
  • Build GPU-aware scheduling, isolation, and resource management strategies for multi-tenant workloads.
  • Optimize container, VM, and I/O performance for GPU-accelerated workloads.
  • Conduct profiling, benchmarking, and performance tuning across runtime, virtualization, and GPU stacks.
  • Contribute to architecture spanning Linux internals, container runtimes, virtualization layers, and GPU drivers.
  • Collaborate with security, platform, and infrastructure teams to define and implement runtime isolation and performance standards.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in systems, platform, infrastructure, or production engineering at scale.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, cloud-native architectures, controllers, operators, or scheduling extensions.
  • Experience designing, implementing, or operating secure execution environments, container runtimes, sandboxed workloads, or virtualized systems.
  • Practical experience with lightweight virtualization and sandboxing technologies such as Kata Containers, gVisor, KubeVirt, or QEMU.
  • Experience supporting GPU-accelerated workloads in multi-tenant environments, including GPU scheduling, isolation, device passthrough, mediated devices, or virtualization.
  • Proficiency in systems-oriented programming with Go, C/C++, Rust, or Bash and strong Linux internals knowledge.
  • Ability to diagnose and resolve complex performance, reliability, or isolation issues across containers, VMs, and infrastructure.
  • Experience profiling, benchmarking, and tuning performance across runtime, virtualization, and GPU stacks.
  • Preferred experience includes safely executing untrusted or sensitive workloads in shared environments, familiarity with GPU drivers and low-level virtualization or I/O optimization, and defining threat models and runtime security policies in multi-tenant systems.

Benefits

  • Base benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave, company-paid life insurance, supplemental life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, FSA, HSA, tuition reimbursement, ESPP participation, mental wellness benefits, family-forming support, paid parental leave, childcare support, and a 401(k) with employer match.
  • Flexible PTO, a casual work environment, and a culture focused on innovative disruption.
  • Catered lunch is provided each day at office and data center locations.
  • Benefits listed apply to US-based full-time employees; benefits may vary for other locations.
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About CoreWeave

1,001-5,000 employees

CoreWeave provides a GPU-accelerated cloud for AI training and inference, VFX, and rendering, with bare-metal instances, Kubernetes orchestration, and managed services to scale workloads. It sells on-demand and reserved capacity to AI labs, startups, and enterprises, and offers SaaS tools and hands-on support for deployment. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq under the ticker CRWV.

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