Reliability Lead, Common Services

What You’ll Do

The Common Services organization at Core Weave is responsible for the shared platforms, APIs, and foundational services that power our AI cloud products and internal engineering teams. From authentication and authorization to core platform primitives and developer experience tooling, this organization ensures that the rest of Core Weave can build, ship, and operate reliably at scale.

As Reliability Lead, Common Services
, you will establish and lead the Reliability Engineering and production operations practice for this organization. You’ll partner closely with engineering leaders and teams across Common Services to define how we build, release, monitor, and operate critical services—raising the bar on reliability, availability, and operational excellence across the board.

You will be responsible for defining the reliability strategy, processes, and standards for the Common Services portfolio and driving consistent, high‑quality operational practices across multiple teams. You’ll monitor production incidents within Common Services, and work directly with your partner teams to design systems that are reliable, observable, and supportable. Your day‑to‑day will blend hands‑on technical work and cross‑functional leadership to drive continuous improvement of Common Services production operations.

• Establish and lead the SRE / production engineering practice for the Common Services organization, including standards for reliability, incident management, and on‑call, in partnership with the central Product Engineering organization.
• Develop an Operational Excellence strategy that focuses on not only improving system performance but also monitoring and reducing operational toil.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical Common Services, and ensure these become part of how teams plan and make trade‑offs.
• Own and improve the incident management lifecycle for Common Services, including on‑call rotations, escalation paths, incident tooling, post‑incident reviews, and follow‑through on corrective actions.
• Drive the observability strategy (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts) for Common Services, ensuring we have actionable visibility into the health, performance, and capacity of key systems.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to design and review architectures for reliability, scalability, resilience, and operability, including failure modes, redundancy, and graceful degradation.
• Lead efforts to automate and harden operational workflows, including deployments, rollbacks, configuration management, change management, and routine maintenance tasks.
• Build strong, trust‑based relationships with partner teams and stakeholders, becoming a go‑to leader for production readiness and operational risk within Common Services.
• Hire, mentor, and develop SRE and production engineering talent, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, learning from incidents, and humane on‑call.
• Partner with other SRE and production engineering leaders across Core Weave to align on global practices, tools, and reliability goals, representing the needs and constraints of Common Services.

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or similar roles working on distributed systems or cloud/platform services.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience (team lead, staff/principal engineer, or people manager) where you drove reliability and operational improvements across multiple services or teams.
• Strong background in Linux‑based production environments, containers, and orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes), including debugging complex issues in live systems.
• Hands‑on experience with observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing) and alerting systems, and a track record of designing meaningful SLIs/SLOs and alert strategies.
• Proven experience running on‑call rotations and incident response, including leading high‑severity incidents and driving high‑quality post‑incident reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to design for reliability (capacity planning, redundancy, failover, backoff, circuit breaking, graceful…