Senior Manager, Observability

CoreWeave
Sunnyvale, US
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior engineering managers with deep observability platform expertise who thrive in high-growth cloud environments.

Best fit for

  • Experienced leader scaling telemetry systems in Kubernetes-based AI infrastructure.
    — “Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers
  • Technical manager comfortable balancing reliability engineering with team development.
    — “Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design
  • Cloud-native specialist who partners across infrastructure and security teams.
    — “Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption

Things to consider

  • Requires managing senior engineers and technical leads in a distributed systems context.
    — “4+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads
  • Must architect solutions balancing scale, resilience, and cost trade-offs.
    — “Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and cost

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate specific cost optimization strategies for high-ingest telemetry systems.
    — “Familiarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systems
  • Highlight cross-functional collaboration to improve instrumentation adoption.
    — “partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation
  • Showcase OpenTelemetry and Grafana implementation case studies.
    — “Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • improved system reliability
  • optimized observability platforms
  • enhanced engineering velocity
Typical background
8+ years of software engineering experience4+ years of engineering management experience

Skills & requirements

Required

ObservabilityDistributed SystemsMetricsLogsTracesTelemetryReliability Engineering

Preferred

OpentelemetryGrafanaPrometheusKubernetes

About the role

Original posting from CoreWeave

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com.

What You’ll Do:

The Observability Engineering organization at CoreWeave is responsible for the platforms and practices that help engineers understand, operate, and improve production systems at scale. This team owns and evolves the foundations for metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and observability reliability, enabling teams to detect issues quickly, troubleshoot complex distributed systems, and operate AI infrastructure with confidence. As CoreWeave continues to scale, observability plays a critical role in delivering reliable platform experiences, improving engineering velocity, and maintaining operational excellence across a rapidly growing cloud environment.

About the role:

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. In this role, you will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure. You will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility. This role combines technical leadership, operational ownership, and team management to ensure observability platforms scale with business and customer needs.

Who You Are:

8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale

4+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads

Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting in distributed systems

Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design

Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers

Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and cost

Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption

Experience hiring and managing engineering teams

Preferred:

Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing tools

Experience operating cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments

Experience supporting large-scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure

Familiarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systems

Experience scaling platforms in high-growth environments

Wondering if you’re a good fit?

We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.

You love solving complex systems problems across infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity

You’re curious about improving observability, debugging workflows, and large-scale distributed systems

You’re an expert in balancing scalability, reliability, and cost in production environments

Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:

Be Curious at Your Core

Act Like an Owner

Empower Employees

Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences

Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $275,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility). 

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave

Company-paid Life Insurance 

Voluntary supplemental life insurance 

Short and long-term disability insurance 

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement 

Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health 

Family-Forming support provided by Carrot

Paid Parental Leave 

Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside

401(k) with a generous employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations

A casual work environment

A work culture focused on innovative disruption

Our Workplace

While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.

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CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.

 

Export Control Compliance

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