Staff Systems Engineer (Architect

Staff Systems Engineer (Architect)

Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco, CA / Bellevue, WA 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

IT Engineering at Core Weave designs, builds, and operates the systems that enable our employees and acquired organizations to work securely and efficiently  team partners closely with Security, Business Development, People Ops, and Corporate functions to deliver resilient, standardized, and automation-first IT solutions that support Core Weave's rapid growth.

As a Staff Systems Engineer, Enterprise Architect, you will own and evolve Core Weave's internal IT and SaaS ecosystem. This is a staff-level engineering role focused on building scalable, secure, and well-governed platforms that enable the business to operate efficiently.

We are looking for someone with strong systems engineering depth and hands-on development experience who can build internal tools, automation, and self-service capabilities that reduce manual operational work across IT. This role is not limited to administering systems; it requires someone who can identify repetitive processes, design durable solutions, and leverage APIs, workflow platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-enabled tooling to improve how employees and IT teams get work done.

You will act as a broad technical owner across core IT systems, including Google Workspace, Slack, domain infrastructure, Cloudflare, and other enterprise SaaS platforms. Beyond operating these systems, you will drive standardization, automation, rationalization, and self-service, ensuring our environment remains sustainable as the company scales.

This role requires strong technical judgment and leadership, including the ability to identify and reduce technical debt, deprecate unsupported tools, and guide the business toward durable, supportable solutions. You will partner closely with Identity, Security, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders to ensure Core Weave's IT platform is reliable, secure, automated, and built for long-term scale.

• Own and operate Core Weave's core IT platform, including Google Workspace, Slack, Cloudflare, DNS/domain infrastructure, and other enterprise SaaS systems.
• Design and maintain secure, scalable configurations across collaboration, communication, and edge/network-adjacent platforms.
• Build internal self-service tools, automations, and workflows that reduce manual IT tasks, improve employee experience, and allow business teams to complete common requests without direct IT intervention.
• Develop production-grade automation using APIs, scripting, workflow platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate.
• Identify high-volume, repetitive, or manual operational processes and convert them into scalable automated or self-service solutions.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling and intelligent workflows to improve operational efficiency, reduce ticket volume, accelerate troubleshooting, and streamline knowledge access.
• Manage DNS, domain lifecycle, and email authentication, including DKIM, SPF, and DMARC.
• Drive tooling rationalization by identifying redundant, legacy, or unsupported systems and leading consolidation or deprecation efforts.
• Establish and enforce standards for system ownership, supportability, lifecycle management, and automation readiness.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for IT systems using APIs, Terraform, workflow platforms, and internal development frameworks.
• Improve IT asset management, system inventory, lifecycle tracking, and SaaS governance across internal tooling.
• Enhance observability, reliability, and operational health of IT systems.
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