Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orch (SUNK)

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 . We're proud to be a Living Wage accredited Employer. What You'll Do: CoreWeave’s Cluster Orchestration team builds and operates the Kubernetes-native foundation that powers AI training and inference at scale. We eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks and create next-generation orchestration capabilities—including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond—ensuring demanding workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters. About the role: As a Staff Software Engineer, you will act as a principal technical leader shaping the long-term architecture and strategy for CoreWeave’s orchestration platform. You will define the technical direction, own critical components of our orchestration layers and managed services, and drive major cross-organizational initiatives in scheduling, multi-tenant quota enforcement, and hyperscale scaling. This high-impact role requires you to establish organization-wide best practices for platform reliability and observability, resolve complex distributed bottlenecks under intense demand, and mentor senior engineers across teams to elevate engineering standards. Who You Are: Minimum 8+ years of professional software engineering experience. Advanced software development proficiency in Go and strong distributed systems design principles. Proven track record designing, operating, and scaling large-scale distributed systems in production environments. Deep technical expertise in Kubernetes internals, Slurm schedulers, or cloud-native development. Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and successfully influencing cross-team architecture and platform goals. Proven ability to mentor senior engineers, review complex technical designs, and elevate organizational operational standards. Preferred: Familiarity with modern orchestration, workflow, and mesh technologies such as Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, or Argo Workflows. Deep experience with distributed workloads, GPU-based cloud applications, or machine learning pipelines. Strong structural knowledge of advanced scheduling concepts, including quota enforcement, resource pre-emption, and intelligent scaling strategies. Practical exposure to enterprise reliability practices, including defining SLOs, telemetry monitoring, and leading post-incident reviews. Direct exposure to large-scale AI infrastructure workloads (ML training, inference, or high-performance computing). Wondering if you're a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we've found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we'd love to talk. You love to define the long-term architecture for cloud platform systems operating at global hyperscale. You're curious about pioneering orchestration beyond SUNK and uncovering novel ways to evolve platforms for next-generation AI workloads. You're an expert in mentorship, technical leadership, and solving structural issues that balance infrastructure cost, performance, and reliability. Why CoreWeave? At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core va…