CoreWeave

Senior Software Engineer II, Inference

CoreWeave
Apply
2 days ago
Bellevue, WA, USA or Sunnyvale, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$182k - $242k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead design reviews, architecture, and decomposition of multi-service initiatives.
  • Define and own SLIs/SLOs and ensure post-incident actions improve reliability.
  • Implement inference optimizations including micro-batch schedulers, speculative decoding, and KV-cache reuse.
  • Improve capacity planning, autoscaling, graceful degradation, rollback, and traffic-shifting strategies.
  • Mentor IC1/IC2 engineers and review cross-team designs and coding/testing standards.
  • Own an area spanning multiple services and teams at the IC4 level.
  • Improve P95/P99 latency, throughput, reliability, and cost through metrics-driven engineering.

Requirements

  • 3–5 years of industry experience for IC3 or 5–8 years for IC4 building distributed systems or cloud services.
  • Strong coding skills in Python or Go; C++ is a plus.
  • Deep familiarity with networked systems, performance, production-scale Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability stacks.
  • Practical knowledge of inference internals including batching, caching, mixed precision, and streaming token delivery.
  • Proven experience improving tail latency and service reliability through metrics-driven work.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred: contributions to vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, or TorchServe.
  • Preferred: experience with CUDA kernels, NCCL/SHARP, RDMA/NUMA, GPU interconnect topologies, multi-team initiatives, or mission-critical customer launches.

Benefits

  • $182,000–$242,000 base salary, plus discretionary bonus and equity awards.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave for eligible US-based full-time employees.
  • Company-paid life insurance, supplemental life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, FSA, and HSA.
  • Tuition reimbursement and eligibility for the employee stock purchase program.
  • Mental wellness benefits through Spring Health and family-forming support through Carrot.
  • Paid parental leave and flexible full-service childcare support through Kinside.
  • 401(k) with employer match and flexible PTO.
  • Catered lunch at office and data center locations, a casual work environment, and an innovation-focused culture.

Tech Stack

C++GoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPython
CoreWeave

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.

Contact me