CoreWeave

Senior Engineer, Storage (File & Block)

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2 hours ago
Bellevue, WA, USA +2 moreSenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$182k - $242k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable multi-tenant file and block storage services on CoreWeave hardware and Kubernetes.
  • Own NFS data-path reliability, I/O resilience, performance, small-file workloads, metadata performance, and GPU-feeding throughput.
  • Build durable, high-performance block volumes for customer workloads and internal stateful services.
  • Deliver a backend-neutral Kubernetes CSI driver with dynamic provisioning, resizing, snapshots, and RWO block volumes.
  • Build storage control-plane capabilities including tenancy isolation, quotas, QoS, snapshots, BYOK key management, auditing, and lifecycle policies.
  • Improve storage reliability, durability, observability, latency, and resilience using telemetry, metrics, and dashboards.
  • Partner with platform, product, infrastructure, and operations teams, including tiering cold data to object storage.
  • Mentor engineers and share best practices for distributed, high-performance systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
  • 6–10 years of experience building storage systems, distributed systems, or infrastructure services.
  • Production experience with distributed or networked file systems and/or block storage, including durability, snapshots, and replication.
  • Expertise in storage data paths, I/O performance, caching, small-file and metadata-heavy workloads, crash consistency, and resilience under load.
  • Experience with multi-tenant services or storage control planes, including provisioning, quotas, snapshots, encryption, and key management.
  • Proficiency in a systems or back-end language, with Go strongly preferred and C or Rust beneficial.
  • Experience building on Kubernetes, including controllers/operators, CRDs, and CSI.
  • Familiarity with distributed databases, workflow orchestration, and gRPC/Protobuf service design.
  • Distributed or parallel storage experience with technologies such as Ceph/RBD, Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS, WEKA, VAST, or DAOS is preferred.
  • Familiarity with ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana, storage observability, and telemetry pipelines is preferred.
  • Exposure to RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, or SPDK is a bonus.
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave for US-based full-time employees.
  • Company-paid life insurance, voluntary supplemental life insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account.
  • Tuition reimbursement and eligibility to participate in 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 an employer match.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Catered lunch at office and data center locations.
  • Casual work environment focused on innovative disruption.
  • Benefits vary for roles outside the US and are shared during the hiring process.

Tech Stack

CClickHouseGoGrafanagRPCKubernetesPrometheusRust

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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.

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