Senior Production Engineer; Reliability

Position: Senior Production Engineer (Reliability)
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. Learn more at

About the Role

Production Engineering ensures Core Weave's cloud delivers world-class reliability, performance, and operational excellence. We are hiring a Senior Production Engineer to take direct, hands-on ownership of critical tooling that drives reliability and delivery success.

In this role, you will work broadly across the cloud stack designing, implementing, deploying, and operating systems that improve delivery velocity, service availability, and operational safety. You'll be responsible for leading end-to-end technical projects, maintaining long-lived systems the team owns, and strengthening our operational foundations through durable engineering investments.

This is a role for someone who enjoys building, debugging, and operating production systems. You will collaborate closely with service owners, but your primary impact comes from the reliability, quality, and maturity of the systems you deliver and maintain over time.

What You'll Do

* Take hands-on ownership of critical systems and frameworks, driving their architecture, implementation, and long-term evolution.

* Lead end-to-end delivery of engineering projects that improve availability, scalability, operational automation, and failure recovery.

* Build and maintain observability, alerting, automated remediation, and resilience testing for the systems you support.

* Participate in incident response as a subject-matter expert; drive deep root-cause investigations and implement lasting fixes.

* Improve runbooks, sources of truth, deployment workflows, and operational tooling to harden production readiness.

* Eliminate single points of failure and reduce operational toil through automation, refactors, and system redesigns.

* Ship production code regularly in Python, Go, or similar languages, and participate in on-call rotations.

* Maintain and mature long-term projects and frameworks owned by the team, ensuring they remain reliable, well-instrumented, and easy to operate.

* Collaborate with platform teams to ensure new features and services integrate cleanly with our reliability best-practices and tooling.

What You've Worked On (Minimum Qualifications)

* 7+ years of engineering experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud platforms.

* Demonstrated ability to debug complex production issues end-to-end, across services, infrastructure layers, and automation.

* Strong programming or scripting ability (Python, Go, or similar), with experience shipping and operating production services and tools.

* Deep knowledge of cloud-native technologies and distributed system patterns, particularly Kubernetes.

* Experience with modern observability stacks: metrics, tracing, structured logs, SLOs/SLIs, and incident lifecycle practices.

* A track record of successfully delivering hands-on reliability improvements through engineering execution.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience building internal tooling, frameworks, or automation that supports high-availability cloud operations.

* Familiarity with DR/BCP, service tiering, capacity planning, or chaos engineering.

* Background operating or building large-scale AI or GPU-accelerated infrastructure.

* Experience maintaining multi-year ownership of foundational production systems.

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 salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we've posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

* Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by Core Weave

* Company-paid Life Insurance

* Voluntary supplemental life insurance

* Short and long-term disability insurance

* Flexible Spending Account

* Health Savings Account

* Tuition Reimbursement

* Ability to Participate in Employee Stock…