Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

CoreWeave
Livingston; NJ / New York; NY / Sunnyvale; CA / Bellevue, US
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward senior engineers comfortable with technical leadership and cross-team collaboration in cloud-native and AI-driven developer platforms.

Best fit for

  • Senior engineers with 10+ years in developer platforms or distributed systems.
    — “10+ years of software engineering experience with significant time spent building and owning production developer platforms
  • Technical leaders who can drive multi-year strategies across complex domains.
    — “Demonstrated ability to define and execute multi-year technical strategies across complex, cross-team domains
  • Engineers with deep expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native environments.
    — “Expertise in Kubernetes and IaaC (Infrastructure as Code) at the platform design level
  • Candidates interested in shaping AI-native developer tooling and workflows.
    — “Experience with or strong leadership interest in AI-native developer tooling

Things to consider

  • Role requires influencing technical decisions across multiple teams.
    — “Proven ability to influence technical decisions at the organization level
  • Position involves mentoring and developing senior engineers.
    — “Mentor and develop Senior II engineers
  • Must address systemic bottlenecks across 40+ data centers.
    — “design solutions that operate reliably across 40+ data centers

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with agentic frameworks or LLM-integrated workflows.
    — “agent-accessible DevEx APIs so that autonomous workflows become a first-class primitive
  • Showcase leadership in platform architecture and API design.
    — “You have strong opinions on API design, service architecture, and platform abstractions
  • Demonstrate impact on developer productivity in past roles.
    — “Solve the highest-complexity developer productivity problems at CoreWeave
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · CompanyLevel · Senior

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

What success looks like

  • developer productivity improvements
  • agentic developer platform evolution
Typical background
software engineeringdistributed systemsagentic AI

Skills & requirements

Required

Large-scale Distributed SystemsAgentic AI ToolingTechnical Strategy

Preferred

Agentic Developer PlatformCross-team Technical Initiatives

Stack & domain

Software EngineeringProduction Developer PlatformsBuild InfrastructureLarge-scale Distributed SystemsTechnical StrategyCi Pipeline InfrastructureTest ExperienceDelivery SystemsArtifact ManagementAgentic Developer ToolingAgentic WorkflowsCross-team Technical InitiativesInfrastructure PerformanceTechnical ExpertiseBreakthroughsComputeCapabilityAi LabsStartupsGlobal EnterprisesSuperior Infrastructure PerformanceDeep Technical ExpertiseAccelerate BreakthroughsTurn Compute Into CapabilityTechnical LeadershipTeam BoundariesDeveloper ProductivityBusiness PrioritiesOrg-wide ScaleSystemic FrictionFirst-class Primitive

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.

About the Team

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™ — the infrastructure that the world's leading AI labs, researchers, and enterprises depend on. The Developer Experience (DevEx) team owns the platform, services, and systems that enable every engineer at CoreWeave to build and ship software faster, more safely, and with greater confidence. Our scope spans the full developer lifecycle: CI (continuous integration) and build infrastructure, test experience, delivery systems, artifact storage and distribution, internal developer platforms, and the agentic AI tooling that is redefining how engineers move from idea to production.

This is a role for a technical leader who operates across team boundaries. You'll own the hardest problems in developer productivity at CoreWeave, by setting the technical strategy for DevEx, removing systemic friction across the engineering org, and shaping the agentic developer platform that will define how engineers build software here for years to come.

What You'll Do

Define and drive the technical strategy for the DevEx platform. Set the long-term architectural direction across CI pipeline infrastructure, test experience, delivery systems, artifact management, and agentic developer tooling, balancing engineering excellence with business priorities and org-wide scale.

Solve the highest-complexity developer productivity problems at CoreWeave. Identify systemic bottlenecks that span teams, design solutions that operate reliably across 40+ data centers, and drive execution from architecture through production.

Lead the agentic developer platform from a technical standpoint. Evolve the architecture of MCP servers, tool integration, and agent-accessible DevEx APIs so that autonomous workflows become a first-class primitive for every engineer at CoreWeave.

Drive cross-team technical initiatives. Work across DevEx, infrastructure, security, SRE, and product engineering to align on platform direction, resolve deep architectural trade-offs, and establish engineering standards that raise the bar org-wide.

Mentor and develop Senior II engineers. Actively coach ICs, elevate technical decision-making across the team, and build the engineering depth needed to sustain DevEx as CoreWeave scales.

Proactively reduce systemic risk. Identify technical debt and reliability gaps before they become incidents, and drive durable improvements to platform resilience, efficiency, and developer trust.

What We're Looking For

10+ years of software engineering experience with significant time spent building and owning production developer platforms, build infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.

Demonstrated ability to define and execute multi-year technical strategies across complex, cross-team domains.

Deep systems design expertise. You design for correctness, scalability, and long-term maintainability. You have strong opinions on API design, service architecture, and platform abstractions, and you can articulate why.

Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages with a track record of shipping large-scale production services in cloud-native environments.

Expertise in Kubernetes and IaaC (Infrastructure as Code) at the platform design level. You understand the scheduler, the API machinery, and the extension points.

Experience with or strong leadership interest in AI-native developer tooling, including agentic frameworks, LLM-integrated developer workflows, or autonomous software development agents.

Proven ability to influence technical decisions at the organization level, build alignment across teams with competing priorities, and communicate clearly with engineering leadership.

A track record of growing senior engineers and building technical strength in the teams around you. You are an inspiring leader.

Nice to Have

Deep expertise in one or more DevEx domains, including large-scale CI, build and test systems (Bazel, Buildkite, remote execution, caching), deployment (GitOps, ArgoCD), artifact storage and distribution, or ephemeral development environment infrastructure.

Hands-on experience designing and operating progressive delivery systems at scale, including SLO-based quality gates, automated multi-stage pipeline orchestration, and custom Kubernetes operators, across heterogeneous deployment environments.

Experience architecting and landing agentic systems at scale, including designing MCP servers, agent governance models, or tool-augmented LLM workflows that operate reliably in production with consistent user-facing value-add.

Prior experience as a technical lead or system architect on a platform or infrastructure team with broad engineering org impact.

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.

 

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Source: CoreWeave careers

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