Engineering Manager, Prime Systems & Services

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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Prime Systems & Services builds and operates internal Kubernetes platforms and foundational infrastructure services that Core Weave depends on. We are a new team focused on making these systems reliable, scalable, and easy to operate. Our work combines Kubernetes, software, systems, and reliability engineering to improve how infrastructure is deployed, changed, and supported at scale.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to build and lead a team of infrastructure and systems engineers. You will have the opportunity to shape the team from its earliest stage and translate an evolving charter into a clear, sustainable operating model. In partnership with technical leadership, you will establish how the team delivers, operates, and grows while remaining accountable for its people, priorities, and outcomes.

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of infrastructure engineers.
• Set clear priorities, roadmaps, ownership, and measures of success.
• Define clear decision-making, escalation, and on-call practices as the team grows.
• Partner with technical leaders to guide architecture and deliver reliable infrastructure and automation.
• Establish strong practices for testing, observability, safe changes, incident response, and on-call.
• Use operational and delivery data to identify risks and guide investment.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies and create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• You have 6+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, platform, SRE, or production engineering, including people leadership.
• You have managed engineers responsible for production systems with meaningful reliability requirements.
• You have experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• You have improved operational practices such as on-call, SLOs, observability, incident response, or change management.
• You have turned ambiguous ownership or cross-team dependencies into clear plans and delivered outcomes.
• You can guide technical tradeoffs and work effectively with senior engineers without becoming the team's sole architect.
• You have experience hiring, coaching, managing performance, and communicating priorities and risks to technical teams and senior leaders.

• Experience building a new engineering team or platform function.
• Experience operating Kubernetes at scale or on bare metal.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation, Git Ops, and progressive delivery.
• Experience leading teams with both development and operational responsibilities.

We value diverse experiences and do not expect candidates to match every qualification. If you enjoy developing engineers, creating clarity, and building dependable infrastructure organizations, we would love to talk.

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

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too.

Come join us!

The base salary range for this role is $182,000 to $242,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base…