Senior Production Engineer, Tooling & Frameworks

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.

About the Role

Production Engineering ensures CoreWeave’s cloud runs with world-class reliability, performance, and operational excellence. Herd is our newest innovation: an agentic AI platform that serves as CoreWeave’s intelligent SRE assistant - combining AI reasoning, data infrastructure, and observability into an autonomous operational intelligence layer for internal use.

As a Production Engineer on Herd, you’ll define and build the systems that power a scalable agentic ecosystem. You’ll design distributed services and data pipelines that process, embed, and retrieve operational knowledge at scale, enabling LLM-powered agents to work alongside human engineers in production. This is a hands-on role at the intersection of AI operations, distributed systems, and data infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and build large-scale distributed systems that power AI SRE Platforms.
• Design data infrastructure for AI reasoning (embedding generation, context retrieval, vector stores) optimized for real-time operational queries.
• Build agent orchestration and lifecycle components so agents can communicate, delegate, and reason collectively across CoreWeave systems.
• Integrate AI SRE Platform with a large number of internal systems (Kubernetes, observability platforms, etc.) to enable end-to-end automation and insights.
• Lead architectural design discussions and set technical direction for AI-driven reliability systems.
• Partner across Production Engineering, Data Engineering, ML Infrastructure, and Platform to operate AI SRE as a high-availability platform embedded in critical reliability workflows.
• Develop services that interpret telemetry, detect anomalies, and generate RCA (root cause analysis) and PIR (post-incident review) artifacts; trigger automated mitigations where appropriate.
• Codify operational best practices into services, APIs, and Kubernetes-native components.
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting the systems you build.

What You’ve Worked On (Minimum Qualifications)

• 5+ years in software or infrastructure engineering building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar), with experience delivering production microservices and data pipelines.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of data systems (streaming, indexing, caching, ETL).
• Demonstrated experience designing for scalability, fault tolerance, and performance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building RAG systems or embedding-based search.
• Familiarity with vector databases and text/signal retrieval systems.
• Experience developing or deploying agentic AI systems (LLM-based automation, AI observability).
• Strong distributed-systems background (consensus, message buses, job orchestration, eventual consistency).
• Experience designing data schemas and APIs for knowledge representation and operational reasoning.
• Familiarity with ChatOps frameworks or workflow orchestration (Temporal, Argo, Airflow).
• Background in MLOps, AI infrastructure, or platform reliability engineering.
• Experience with observability frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and using telemetry for automated reasoning or remediation.

Why CoreWeave

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast. You’ll join a team that values curiosity, ownership, and creative problem-solving. As part of Production Engineering, you’ll operate at the intersection of AI and reliability — building systems that make operating the most powerful AI cloud in the world smarter every day.

Core Values:

• 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 $139,000 to $204,000. 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. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility). 

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

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

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance 
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance 
• Short and long-term disability insurance 
• Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Tuition Reimbursement 
• Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health 
• Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave 
• Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

Our Workplace

While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration

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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.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.

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 licensing process.