Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration

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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What You'll Do:

CoreWeave’s AI Workload Orchestration Platform team builds and operates the core, Kubernetes-native substrate that governs how massive AI workloads are admitted, scheduled, and executed across our global GPU footprint. Serving as a strategic complement to SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes), this platform underpins both training and inference pipelines across the CoreWeave cloud, ensuring highly efficient resource utilisation for the world's most demanding AI applications.

About the role:

As a Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orch (Non SUNK), you will act as a principal technical leader driving CoreWeave’s Kubernetes-native orchestration strategy. You will own the technical vision and architecture for major portions of the platform, defining how AI workloads are admitted, scheduled, and governed across large GPU clusters using frameworks such as Kueue, Volcano, and Ray. In this high-impact role, you will apply systems thinking to resolve systemic performance, scalability, and fairness issues at scale. Additionally, you will lead cross-team architecture reviews, drive technical alignment across broader infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams, and establish platform-wide standards for reliability, capacity management, and developer experience while mentoring senior engineers across the organisation.

Who You Are:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep technical expertise in distributed systems or cloud platforms.

Strong software development proficiency in Go, with a proven track record of designing large-scale, long-lived production systems.

Deep technical knowledge of Kubernetes internals, scheduling mechanisms, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and controller-based architectures.

Demonstrated engineering experience designing, scaling, or evolving orchestration, scheduling, or hardware resource-management platforms.

Proven ability to lead high-impact technical initiatives across multiple distributed engineering teams without direct authority.

Strong operational mindset with a history of owning and stabilizing mission-critical production systems at scale.

Preferred:

Hands-on experience with modern Kubernetes-native orchestration frameworks such as Kueue, Volcano, Ray, or similar batch/streaming schedulers.

Deep structural background in AI infrastructure, ML platforms, HPC, or large-scale multi-tenant batch systems.

Solid understanding of advanced scheduling concepts, including fair-share algorithms, pre-emption, quota management, and multi-tenant resource isolation.

Experience defining and operating SLOs, building capacity models, and driving large-scale infrastructure reliability improvements.

Active upstream code contributions to open-source infrastructure or orchestration projects.

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.

You love to: Scale highly complex distributed orchestration layers and establish technical visions that redefine how massive clusters operate.

You're curious about: Optimising advanced scheduling primitives, pre-emption strategies, and maximising GPU efficiencies across thousands of nodes.

You're an expert in: Driving cross-team technical execution, resolving deep scalability bottlenecks, and mentoring engineers to raise systems thinking standards.

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 encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take-off, the organisation's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

Compensation

The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

To fulfill our obligation to protect client data, successful applicants offered employment with CoreWeave will be required to complete a basic criminal record check, conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results.

What We Offer

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:

Family-level Medical Insurance

Family-level Dental Insurance

Generous Pension Contribution

Life Assurance at 4x Salary

Critical Illness Cover

Employee Assistance Programme

Tuition Reimbursement

Work culture focused on innovative disruption

Benefits may vary by location.

Equal Opportunity

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

Recruitment Agencies

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Any unsolicited CVs sent by your company to us – that is to say, in any situation where we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy – will be considered by us to be a “free gift”, leaving us liable for no fees whatsoever should we choose to contact the candidate directly and engage the candidate’s services, and will in no way establish any prior claim by your company to representation of that candidate should the candidate’s details also be submitted by any other party.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensin