Staff Engineer, Cilium CNI & Cloud Networking

About the role

As a Staff Engineer focused on our Cilium-based CNI, you will design, build, and operate the container networking layer that underpins CoreWeave's Kubernetes platforms. Day to day, you will work on evolving our CNI stack to support large, high-density GPU clusters with demanding throughput and latency requirements. You will partner closely with Kubernetes, Infrastructure, and Network Services engineers to ensure the platform is highly available, observable, and secure. This role spans architecture, implementation, and operations, with ownership from prototype through production. You will also help shape how our networking platform scales for future growth.

Responsibilities

• Network Services Team

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Systems Engineer working on cloud infrastructure or large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on production experience with Cilium CNI (or equivalent advanced CNIs), including cluster configuration and lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of Cilium's eBPF datapath, policy model, and load-balancing mechanisms.
• Deep knowledge of cloud networking concepts, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups/ACLs, NAT, and ingress/egress architectures.
• Experience designing multi-tenant network architectures with strong isolation and security.
• Solid grounding in TCP/IP, dynamic routing (e.g., BGP), ECMP, MTU/fragmentation, and overlay/underlay networking (VXLAN, Geneve, encapsulation).
• Experience with network observability and troubleshooting across L3-L7.
• Proficiency in at least one systems language such as Golang or C/C++.
• Experience working in modern CI/CD environments.
• Experience operating Kubernetes at scale, including cluster lifecycle management and debugging networking issues across pods, nodes, and external services.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex systems end-to-end
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Preferred
• Experience operating cloud-scale network services across tens of thousands of nodes and multiple regions.
• Contributions to Cilium, Kubernetes, or related open-source networking projects.
• Experience with eBPF development and performance tuning.
• Experience building Kubernetes operators or controllers.
• Familiarity with service meshes, multi-cluster networking, or cluster mesh solutions.
• Experience in GPU-heavy, HPC, or other performance-sensitive environments.
• Wondering if you're a good fit?
• We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who bring diverse experiences - even if you're not a 100% match on paper. If some of this sounds like you, we'd love to talk.
• You love solving complex distributed systems and networking challenges at scale.
• You're curious about cloud-native networking, eBPF, and Kubernetes internals.
• You're an expert in building reliable, scalable infrastructure that runs in production.
• Why CoreWeave?
• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

Benefits

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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