Senior Software Engineer, IAM

CoreWeave
New York; Sunnyvale; Bellevue, US

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior engineers with distributed systems expertise who thrive in high-scale IAM platforms, particularly those comfortable with Go, TypeScript, or Python in AI cloud infrastructure.

Best fit for

  • Engineers who own code quality from development through production.
    — “Demonstrated ownership of code quality, performance, and maintainability from development through production
  • Candidates with deep experience in authentication and authorization standards.
    — “Experience with authentication, authorization and security best practices

Things to consider

  • Participation in on-call rotations is required.
    — “Drive operational excellence by participating in on-call rotations
  • Collaboration with non-technical stakeholders is expected.
    — “Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across the business, including product managers, designers and TPMs

How to stand out

  • Highlight specific instances where you scaled systems to handle unpredictable loads.
    — “Optimize system performance to ensure that services remain highly available and performant under unpredictable load patterns
  • Showcase contributions to open standards like OIDC or OAuth2.0 in past projects.
    — “Experience developing identity products on top of standards including OIDC, OAuth2.0, SAML, and JWT
  • Demonstrate how you've used AI tools to improve development workflows.
    — “Demonstrate and shape best-practices in software engineering by embracing AI for development
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

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What success looks like

  • design and implement IAM services
  • optimize system performance
  • ensure high availability
Typical background
software engineeringsecurity

Skills & requirements

Required

Distributed SystemsMicroservicesRestful/grpc API DesignObservability

Preferred

KubernetesAI For Development

Stack & domain

GoTypeScriptPythonKubernetesRestful/grpc Api DesignAsynchronous Messaging PatternsObservabilityRelational DatabasesSQLAutomated TestingCi/cd PipelinesAuthenticationAuthorizationSecurity Best PracticesCommunicationAICloud Infrastructure

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

 

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Identity & Access Management (IAM) team, you will play a key role in designing, building, scaling, and maintaining CoreWeave’s rapidly expanding IAM platform. You will leverage your experience in distributed systems to design, extend, and harden a platform that secures our high-performance cloud infrastructure. You’ll be working at the intersection of design, developer experience, and platform architecture to help scale our services to the next order of magnitude. Here are just a few of the interesting and exciting things you’ll be doing:

Architect and build high-scale, low-latency distributed systems that power CoreWeave’s identity, authentication and authorization services

Design and implement customer-facing and internal APIs and backend services that underpin our IAM platform

Optimize system performance to ensure that services remain highly available and performant under unpredictable load patterns

Collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across the business, including product managers, designers and TPMs, to shape the team’s strategy and roadmap

Drive operational excellence by participating in on-call rotations and building automated tooling for monitoring, alerting, and incident response

Demonstrate and shape best-practices in software engineering by embracing AI for development, insisting on maintainable and testable code, and participating in thorough code reviews

Work with incredible people in a supportive, iterative, high-trust, agile environment

Who You Are

Experience: Minimum of 5 years of professional experience developing, operating and maintaining backend services in a production environment

Programming: Strong proficiency developing software in one or more of our preferred languages (Go, TypeScript, Python)

Distributed systems: Knowledge of microservices architecture, RESTful/gRPC API design, and asynchronous messaging patterns

Observability: Fluency with best practices in observability (logging, metrics, dashboards, alerting)

Database design:  Solid understanding of relational databases, schema design, and SQL

Testing and quality: Strong commitment to automated testing (unit, integration, and E2E) and CI/CD pipelines

Ownership: Demonstrated ownership of code quality, performance, and maintainability from development through production

Security: Experience with authentication, authorization and security best practices

Problem solving: A proven track record of debugging complex performance bottlenecks and distributed system failures in a production environment

Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical team members

Preferred

Experience with Kubernetes and a conceptual understanding of its major components.

Experience building reliable and scalable platform services that process large amounts of data.

Experience developing identity products on top of standards including OIDC, OAuth2.0, SAML, and JWT

Experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)

Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools and practices

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 to solve complex problems and build high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.

You’re curious about how to evolve cloud platforms and scale infrastructure globally for the next generation of AI workloads.

You’re an expert in one or more preferred programming languages like Go, TypeScript, or Python, and have deep technical knowledge of distributed systems.

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 $165,000 to $242,000. 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.

 

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