Engineering Manager, Object Storage Control Plane

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 Team Core Weave  is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the object storage control plane team, part of the distributed storage infrastructure behind Core Weave's AI Object Storage produict. This team manages the systems that make Core Weave's object storage trustworthy and efficient: data lifecycle, billing, durability auditing, performance and storage capacity management, data placement, and bucket metadata, along with upcoming investments into storage availability zones.

The control plane is built in Go, the team sits at the center of how object storage scales, and we are actively growing it with a focus on the US.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the engineers who own object storage's control plane services: lifecycle, billing, durability auditing, capacity management, placement, and bucket metadata

Learn the architecture, service boundaries, and dependencies deeply in your first 30 days, and build relationships with engineers, product partners, and partner-team leads

Identify delivery risks, operational gaps, and unclear ownership, and fix them

Lead planning and execution as priorities shift, including the upcoming investment in storage availability zones

Keep the bar high on reliability and operational excellence for systems that customers bill against

Hire and grow the team

Qualifications:

Years of

Experience:

8+ years in software engineering with 1+ years managing engineers building control plane, metadata, or distributed infrastructure systems

Education Experience (if applicable): BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Your teams have built distributed control planes or metadata systems in production, not only run them Technically credible in Go or a comparable systems language; you lead through design and code review

Experience with correctness-critical systems such as billing, auditing, or placement, where being wrong costs customers money or data

You have hired engineers and grown a team through change

Preferred

Skills:

Years of Experience (preferred): 5+ years building storage, metadata, or distributed control plane systems as an engineer before moving into management

Object storage, databases, or large-scale metadata systems

Capacity management or placement systems at cloud scale

Experience standing up a new team inside a growing organization

Why Core Weave?

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…