CoreWeave is the AI Hyperscaler™, delivering a cloud platform of cutting edge services powering the next wave of AI. Our technology provides enterprises and leading AI labs with the most performant, efficient and resilient solutions for accelerated computing. Since 2017, CoreWeave has operated a growing footprint of data centers covering every region of the US and across Europe. CoreWeave was ranked as one of the TIME100 most influential companies of 2024.
As the leader in the industry, we thrive in an environment where adaptability and resilience are key. Our culture offers career-defining opportunities for those who excel amid change and challenge. If you’re someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and is eager to make a significant impact, CoreWeave is the place for you. Join us, and be part of a team solving some of the most exciting challenges in the industry.
CoreWeave powers the creation and delivery of the intelligence that drives innovation.
About the Role
As we continue to scale the CoreWeave Cloud Platform, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational efficiency in a live production environment is mission-critical. We’re seeking a Director of Production Engineering to lead and expand our SRE team and practices. This leader will play a key role in shaping the resilience and reliability of our platform, partnering closely with engineering and product teams to build systems and services that are secure, scalable, and highly efficient.
You will champion a culture of operational excellence, automation, and ownership, empowering our cloud platform to scale confidently and operate with agility.
What You’ll Do
- Define and execute the Production Engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap for a large-scale, AI purposed-built cloud infrastructure.
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of production engineers, promoting a culture of ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
- Champion automation-first practices, leveraging tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, AI, and Infrastructure-as-Code to minimize toil and manual interventions.
- Establish and evolve best practices in observability, monitoring, and alerting, ensuring the platform is proactive, not reactive.
- Drive initiatives for incident management, postmortem culture, root cause analysis, and system hardening.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer support teams to build scalable, resilient, and self-healing systems.
- Evolve our on-call strategy and processes to support a 24x7, globally distributed platform with minimal disruptions.
We’re looking for a thoughtful leader who blends technical depth with strategic vision, and thrives in fast-moving, high-growth environments. If you value clarity over complexity, mentorship over management, and resilience over rigidity, you’ll fit right in.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
- 10+ years in a leadership or senior management role at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or high-growth tech company.
- 5+ years of experience in running Kubernetes at scale, including provisioning, node management, control plane tuning, and networking.
- Experience hiring, developing, and managing globally distributed 24x7 engineering teams.
- Experience in designing and implementing incident management processes including on-call rotations, escalation paths, postmortems, and SLO/SLA framework.
- Strong knowledge of building or scaling automated maintenance workflows, including rolling upgrades, node draining, firmware/driver orchestration, and change control.
- Solid foundation in systems engineering, with a deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and storage architecture.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence product, platform, hardware, and security teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building platform tooling and internal developer portals to improve engineering velocity and operational visibility.
- Familiarity with GPU-accelerated workloads, including resource isolation, scheduling, and performance tuning.
- Experience working in AI infrastructure environments supporting training or inference at scale.
- Background in compliance, reliability risk modeling, or operational maturity assessments (e.g., RTO/RPO, chaos engineering).
- Prior leadership experience in bare metal infrastructure environments (e.g., custom data centers, edge compute, HPC clusters).
- Working knowledge of DPUs, service mesh architectures, and multi-tenant security models.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $230,000-$275,000. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
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
- 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: [email protected].
Export Control Compliance
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
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