Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Infrastructure

What You’ll Do

The Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team in the Data Infrastructure organization is responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of the company’s data platform. We build and operate the foundational systems that power data ingestion, transformation, analytics, and internal AI workloads  support mission‑critical services with stringent uptime requirements, automation, observability, and resilience.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the reliability and performance of our Kubernetes‑based data platform. You will design and operate highly available, multi‑region systems, ensuring strict uptime and latency targets. Day‑to‑day duties include scaling infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, hardening security posture, and evolving Dev Sec Ops  practices in partnership with engineering teams.

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, Platform or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerized services, including cluster design, operations and troubleshooting in production.
• Strong experience building and operating CI/CD systems such as Argo CD and Git Hub Actions.
• Proven ownership of production systems with high availability requirements (≥99.99% uptime), including incident response, SLI/SLO/SLA definition, error budgets and post‑mortems.
• Hands‑on design and operation of geo‑replicated, multi‑region active‑active systems, traffic routing, failover strategies and data consistency trade‑offs.
• Strong experience building observable components: metrics, logging and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry).
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Helm, Terraform, Pulumi) and automated provisioning.
• Strong understanding of system performance tuning, capacity planning and resource optimization in distributed systems.
• Experience implementing and operating security best practices in cloud‑native environments (secrets management, network policies, vulnerability scanning).

• Experience operating data platforms or data‑intensive workloads (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Flink).
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Experience working in regulated environments with compliance frameworks such as GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA or SOX.
• Background in building internal developer platforms or self‑service infrastructure.

The base salary range for this role is $165,000‑$242,000. In addition to base salary, we offer a discretionary bonus, equity awards and a comprehensive benefits program.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance – 100% paid by Core Weave.
• Company‑paid life insurance and voluntary supplemental life cover.
• Short‑term and long‑term disability insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• Mental wellness benefits via Spring Health.
• Family‑forming support with Carrot.
• Paid parental leave.
• Flexible, full‑service childcare support with Kinside.
• 401(k) with generous employer match.
• Flexible PTO.
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations.
• Casual work environment.

We prioritize a hybrid model. Remote work may be considered for candidates more than 30 miles from an office, subject to role requirements.

Core Weave is an equal‑opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Core Weave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process.

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This position requires access to export‑controlled information. Only U.S. persons (U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees) and those eligible to obtain the required export authorization are eligible. Core Weave may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.