Senior Director of Compute Services

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.

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As Senior Director of Compute Services, you will be responsible for the infrastructure that supports internal and external customer platforms. Your services will deliver compute capacity to the most innovative and demanding AI labs in the world. You will work closely with thought leaders to define the future of AI computing infrastructure covering bare metal deployment, kubernetes, container registry and virtualization.

As Senior Director of Compute Services, you will be responsible for the infrastructure that supports internal and external customer platforms. Your services will deliver compute capacity to the most innovative and demanding AI labs in the world. You will work closely with thought leaders to define the future of AI computing infrastructure covering bare metal deployment, kubernetes, container registry and virtualization.

• Define and drive the engineering roadmap for Core Weave compute products
• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams, including managers and senior ICs, responsible for building and operating security-critical services.
• Own the availability, reliability, and performance of security product services in production, including SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and on-call practices.
• Partner closely with Product Management to translate customer requirements into clear technical designs and delivery plans.
• Oversee the architecture and implementation of secure, scalable, and auditable systems that power customer and internal workloads.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams (Sales, Solutions, Customer Experience) to support complex enterprise deployments and unblock high-impact opportunities.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, quality bars, and operational best practices for security products in a rapidly growing environment.

• 10+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering building and operating production services.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including directly managing other managers and scaling multi-team organizations.
• Proven track record of delivering at scale compute product products at a cloud provider, security company, or large-scale SaaS, preferably in an AI or Machine Learning environment.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems with high availability, strong correctness requirements, and clear operational ownership.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security concepts such as authentication, authorization, least privilege, encryption at rest and in transit, and audit logging.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product Management and Security/Compliance teams to prioritize trade-offs and ship customer-facing platform capabilities.
• Experience building and mentoring diverse, inclusive, and high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.

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