Senior Director, Fleet Reliability Operations

Senior Director, Fleet Reliability Operations

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Core Weave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, Core Weave 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, Core Weave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, Core Weave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.

Lead the continuing evolution of Core Weave’s global GPU server fleet. This is your chance to reimagine how supercomputing infrastructure is managed as we 10X our global scale, applying automation and AI to turn complexity into possibility.

The Fleet Reliability Operations team sits at the heart of Core Weave’s growth. Every day, this team battles the forces of entropy across an ever growing fleet, ensuring our customers have the compute they need to push the boundaries of AI.

As Senior Director of Fleet Operations, you’ll architect for scale, build for resilience, and operationalize for speed, leading the next leap in how we provision and manage servers across our highest tiers of supercomputing clusters. You’ll be technically embedded, automation‑obsessed, and driven by the pursuit of elegant, lean, and reliable systems that redefine what’s possible in cloud infrastructure.

• Lead and grow a high‑performing management team operating globally
• Develop and drive the Fleet Operations roadmap, prioritizing automation, resilience, and scale
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with hardware, platform, network, data center and vendor teams
• Champion operational excellence, high‑signal metrics and blameless incident response
• Drive automation‑first strategy — prioritizing innovation over toil
• Cultivate a team culture of reliability, mentorship and continuous improvement
• Inspire a team of industry‑leading operations engineers through thoughtful and robust hiring, onboarding and performance management practices

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, development, SRE or Dev Ops
• 5+ years in leadership roles managing mission‑critical global production environments
• Deep technical understanding of data center operations, fleet provisioning, lifecycle management, and observability tooling
• Builder of resilient engineering teams and systems with 24/7 incident and reliability responsibilities
• Fluent in automation workflows, monitoring solutions, and scalable fleet management systems
• Effective communicator and collaborator who can align complex, cross‑functional initiatives
• Process‑oriented and pragmatic; able to document, simplify and scale without calcifying

• Experience managing global fleets of GPU or HPC dense compute infrastructure
• Technical background in architecture and/or development of infrastructure management platforms and workflows
• Prior roles owning uptime, incident response, or reliability engineering in hyperscale environments

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 through our 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 $212,000 to $311,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location.

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

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by Core Weave
• 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…