Sr. Engineering Manager, Inference CoreWeave Bellevue, WA

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.

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Core Weave is looking for a Sr. Engineering Manager to lead the core team for our next-generation Inference Platform.

As a Sr. Engineering Manager for the Inference team, you will lead a team of senior and staff engineers building and operating Core Weave's Kubernetes-native inference platform.

• 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services
• 3+ years of engineering management experience, including managing senior and staff-level engineers
• Track record owning a production service end to end including availability, latency, capacity, and cost
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes at production scale, including orchestration, scheduling, and service design
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, networked services, and performance under load; able to lead architecture and code review without owning the critical path
• Experience defining and defending SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, and building the operational practice behind them
• Experience with multi-tenant platforms: isolation, quota, noisy-neighbor mitigation, and fair sharing
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; able to create clarity in ambiguous or fast-scaling environment.
• Demonstrated track record of growing and promoting engineers, including into senior and staff-level roles
• Experience running performance calibration and making accurate leveling decisions
• Experience managing underperformance directly and fairly, as well as retaining top performers
• Experience building and owning a hiring bar and interview process for senior engineering roles

• Experience operating low-latency, high-throughput request-serving systems against strict P95/P99 targets
• Working knowledge of autoscaling, load balancing, admission control, and traffic management at scale
• Experience with capacity planning and demand forecasting for constrained or expensive resources
• Familiarity with GPU-backed workloads and the scheduling and utilization trade-offs they introduce
• Progressive delivery practices canarying, feature gating, safe rollback for always on services

• Experience operating a customer-facing cloud service or developer platform, including API and control-plane design
• Familiarity with inference-serving stacks such as vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, or Torch Serve
• Experience operating multi-region fleets at a cloud provider or hyperscaler
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry)
• Experience scaling teams, tooling, and processes in a high-growth environment

• You love to build frictionless products for developers
• You’re curious about AI and MLOps tooling
• You’re an expert in building inference systems that scale for production workloads

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

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