Software Engineer, Observability

What You’ll Do:

We are seeking Software Engineers to join our efforts in building, maintaining, and optimizing highly scalable, reliable, and secure systems. The Observability team is responsible for deploying and maintaining critical infrastructure at Core Weave including our logging, tracing, and metrics platforms as well as the pipelines that feed them.

• Design, build and maintain logging, tracing, and/or metrics platforms with moderate supervision.
• Develop and refine monitoring and alerting to enhance system reliability.
• Assist engineers across Core Weave in developing effective usage patterns for Observability systems.
• Manage production and pre‑production clusters, building tools to enable development teams to follow best practices.

• 2-5 years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops, or a related field.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Go).
• Experience working in Kubernetes, containerization, and microservices architectures.
• Experience being on call, triaging and escalating (when appropriate) production issues.
• History of consuming observability systems at scale.
• Excellent problem‑solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience running a production observability database or tool (e.g., Click House, Elastic, Loki, Victoria Metrics, Prometheus, Thanos, Open Telemetry, and/or Grafana).
• Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform.
• Exposure to modern testing frameworks and progressive deployment strategies.
• Hands‑on experience using data‑streaming systems for observability pipelines.

The base salary range for this role is $109,000 to $145,000. 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).

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, including:

• 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 Purchase Program (ESPP)
• Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
• Family‑Forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible, full‑service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with a generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.

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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 (ADA), Core Weave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause…