Senior Engineer II, Storage
Listed on 2025-12-01
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Core Weave is the AI Hyperscaler, delivering a cloud platform of cutting edge services powering the next wave of AI. Our technology provides enterprises and leading AI labs with the most performant, efficient and resilient solutions for accelerated computing. Since 2017, Core Weave has operated a growing footprint of data centers covering every region of the US and across Europe. Core Weave was ranked as one of the TIME
100 most influential companies of 2024.
As the leader in the industry, we thrive in an environment where adaptability and resilience are key. Our culture offers career-defining opportunities for those who excel amid change and challenge. If you’re someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and is eager to make a significant impact, Core Weave is the place for you. Join us, and be part of a team solving some of the most exciting challenges in the industry.
Core Weave powers the creation and delivery of the intelligence that drives innovation.
What You’ll Do
We are looking for a Senior Storage Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and operating our high-performance storage systems. You will contribute to the evolution of Core Weave’s storage platform by building reliable, scalable, and high-throughput solutions. This role involves close collaboration with engineering teams across infrastructure, compute, and platform to ensure our storage services meet the needs of demanding AI workloads.
About
The Role
- Design and implement storage solutions to support Core Weave’s growing AI and cloud infrastructure needs.
- Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage and integrate dedicated storage clusters into diverse customer environments.
- Work with technologies such as RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, SPDK, and distributed file systems to optimize storage performance and efficiency.
- Participate in efforts to improve the reliability, durability, and observability of our storage stack.
- Collaborate with operations teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve storage systems in production environments.
- Help develop metrics and dashboards to provide visibility into storage performance and health.
- Analyze telemetry and system data to drive improvements in throughput, latency, and resilience.
- Work cross-functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities across the stack.
- Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed, high-performance systems.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6–10 years of experience working in storage systems engineering or infrastructure.
- Strong hands-on experience with object storage or distributed file systems in production environments.
- Experience with one or more storage protocols (e.g. S3, NFS) and file systems such as Ceph, DAOS, or similar.
- Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, C, or Rust.
- Familiarity with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines (e.g., Click House, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architecture.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed, high-performance environments.
- Clear communicator, able to work collaboratively across teams and share technical insights effectively.
Why Core Weave?
About
At Core Weave, 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…
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