Senior Software Engineer, Server Fleet Infrastructure

What You’ll Do:

Core Weave builds scalable, high-performance computing systems that power the largest AI workloads in the world. We’re looking for engineers that thrive at the intersection of software and systems, deploying and managing large scale bare metal compute. You will design and build software that manages complex infrastructure across globally distributed datacenters using Go, Python/Ansible, Linux, observability/monitoring stacks, and technologies like gRPC and Kubernetes CRDs/Controllers/Operators.

Your work will be critical to the company’s delivery of reliable and efficient infrastructure.

• Design and implement solutions to problems of scale for multi-site deployment and management of Core Weave’s global server hardware fleet.
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs (gRPC/REST) in Go or Python to interact with Kubernetes and other infrastructure systems.
• Develop provisioning services, automation workflows, and fleet management tools that span from bare metal to container orchestration.
• Write and maintain Kubernetes custom controllers and operators to automate infrastructure behavior.
• Design and implement observability solutions for large-scale server monitoring to improve system stability and insight.
• Adapt and extend open source tooling to enhance visibility into system metrics, performance, and health.
• Create test plans, deployment automation, dashboards, alerts, and insights into our fleet operations.
• Resolve integration challenges across the entire infrastructure stack, from data center hardware to orchestration platforms.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering.
• Proficiency in Go and/or Python software development.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Argo, Flux, and Git Hub Actions.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

• Experience designing, implementing, and monitoring Kubernetes operators for custom resource definitions.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt.
• Experience with distributed cloud computing principles, including testing strategies, observability, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design.
• Experience implementing metrics pipelines, custom alerts, and monitoring strategies.
• Ability to break down complex problems into achievable tasks and collaborate with teammates to execute them.
• Willingness and ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

Fleet Provisioning Automation
:
Automation is key to delivering reliable GPU compute to clients. On this team you’ll write Go microservices and extend Kubernetes custom resources and operators to deliver and monitor cutting-edge computing platforms. Ensuring new compute hardware is ready to deploy, and monitor existing hardware across our growing datacenter footprint.

Fleet Monitoring & Analysis
:
Our customers’s AI workloads push our physical infrastructure to the limit. This team is solving our fleet monitoring, visibility and self-healing problems  develop, collect and correlate metrics to engineer observability solutions, utilizing technologies like Go, Prometheus, Grafana, and Kubernetes.

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 pay for this position ranges from $139,000 to $242,000 accordingly. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position includes a discretionary bonus, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of…