Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Infrastructure

About the role

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes-based data platform. You will design and operate highly available, multi-region systems, ensuring our services meet strict uptime and latency targets. Day-to-day, you'll work on scaling infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, and hardening our security posture. You'll play a key role in evolving our DevSecOps practices while partnering closely with engineering teams to ensure services are built for reliability from day one.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerized software services, including cluster design, operations, and troubleshooting in production environments
• Strong experience building and operating CI/CD systems, including tools such as Argo CD and GitHub Actions
• Proven experience owning production systems with high availability requirements (≥99.99% uptime), including incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definition, error budgets, and postmortems
• Hands-on experience designing and operating geo-replicated, multi-region, active-active systems, including traffic routing, failover strategies, and data consistency tradeoffs
• Strong experience building and owning observability components, including metrics, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Helm, Terraform, Pulumi) and automated environment provisioning
• Strong understanding of system performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization in distributed systems
• Experience implementing and operating security best practices in cloud-native environments (e.g., secrets management, network policies, vulnerability scanning)
• Preferred:
• Experience operating data platforms or data-intensive workloads (e.g., Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink)
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
• Experience working in regulated environments with compliance frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, or SOX
• Background in building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure
• You love building highly reliable systems that operate at scale
• You're curious about how to continuously improve system resilience, security, and operations
• You're an expert in diagnosing and solving complex distributed systems problems
• Why CoreWeave?
• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together
• 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

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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