Senior Software Engineer, IAM

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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?
• 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 enable

Additional Information

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 .

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