Senior Security Production Engineer

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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The Security Production Engineering team at Core Weave is responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining the secure infrastructure that underpins our AI cloud platform. This team ensures the reliability, performance, and resilience of security systems across a rapidly growing global footprint, enabling safe and efficient operations for enterprise and AI workloads at scale.

As a Production Engineer, Security at Core Weave, you will design, build, and operate the systems that keep our platform secure, reliable, and highly performant. You’ll work closely with infrastructure and engineering teams to improve system resilience, automate operational processes, and proactively mitigate risks. Your day to day will include developing scalable security infrastructure, enhancing observability, and responding to production incidents while continuously improving system reliability and performance.

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available security infrastructure using Kubernetes and cloud native technologies
• Build automation and monitoring solutions to proactively identify and mitigate reliability risks
• Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize system performance, reduce latency, and improve service uptime
• Participate in incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventative solutions
• Mentor team members and promote best practices in reliability, security engineering, and infrastructure management

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, Dev Ops, security engineering, security operations, or related roles
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud native technologies
• Experience managing and operating Teleport for infrastructure access control
• Proficiency in automation and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go
• Experience operating and maintaining large scale distributed systems with a focus on reliability

• Familiarity with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
• Experience working with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

• You enjoy solving complex infrastructure and security challenges at scale
• You’re curious about improving system reliability, automation, and observability
• You have a strong ownership mindset and take pride in building resilient systems

At Core Weave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast. We are in an exciting stage of hyper growth and building the infrastructure powering the next wave of AI. Our team embraces continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation to solve complex challenges at scale.

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best in Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We foster an environment that encourages independent thinking, collaboration, and the development of innovative solutions. You will work alongside some of the best talent in the industry and have opportunities to grow as we continue to scale.

The base salary range for this role is $139,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each…