Staff Software Engineer, Observability

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. The Observability team is responsible for deploying and maintaining critical infrastructure at CoreWeave, including our global logging, tracing, and metrics platforms as well as the high-throughput pipelines that feed them. We build the foundational telemetry systems that enable engineering teams across CoreWeave to operate our massive GPU cloud reliably and at scale. About the role: As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead our efforts in building, maintaining, and optimizing highly scalable, reliable, and secure observability systems. You will take ownership of scaling our core logging, tracing, and metrics platforms to support an expanding global data centre footprint. In this role, you will develop and refine monitoring and alerting frameworks, automate interactions with CoreWeave’s compute infrastructure layer, and manage production clusters to ensure development teams follow deployment best practices. Additionally, you will advise engineers across the entire company on the optimal usage of observability systems, lead incident management and post-mortem analyses, and mentor engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence and collaboration. Who You Are: 7+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or a related technical field. Deep technical expertise across all observability pillars (logging, metrics, tracing) using ecosystem tools such as ClickHouse, Elastic, Loki, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Thanos, and/or Grafana. Advanced expertise in Kubernetes, containerization, and microservices architectures at scale. Proven track record of leading production incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortem processes. Strong problem-solving, analytical, and written/verbal communication skills. Preferred: Experience running, operating, and scaling observability platforms within a cloud provider environment. Hands-on experience administering and operating large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. Deep understanding of high-throughput data-streaming systems and telemetry ingestion pipelines. 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 scale mission-critical platform infrastructure and solve complex, distributed telemetry challenges at hyperscale. You're curious about pioneering low-latency data streaming and building observability systems that effortlessly keep pace with rapid fleet growth. You're an expert in mentoring engineers, setting operational standards, and advising cross-functional teams on reliability best practices. 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 values: 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 en…