CoreWeave

Senior Software Engineer

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

Base Salary

$153k - $204k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement secure sandboxed 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, latency-sensitive workloads.
  • Conduct profiling, benchmarking, and performance tuning across runtime, virtualization, and GPU stacks.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions involving 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, plus 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 safely executing untrusted or sensitive workloads in shared environments, working with GPU drivers and low-level virtualization or I/O optimization, and defining threat models or runtime security policies.

Benefits

  • Base benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave, company-paid life insurance, disability insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, ESPP participation, mental wellness benefits, family-forming support, paid parental leave, childcare support, and a 401(k) with employer match.
  • Flexible PTO and a casual work environment are provided.
  • Catered lunch is available each day in office and data center locations.
  • The role is a US-based full-time position; benefits for other locations vary and are shared during hiring.
  • The company offers opportunities for growth, collaboration, and innovative work in a hyper-growth environment.

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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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