Engineering Manager, Storage Security

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We are looking for a customer‑value focused Engineering Manager to lead the evolution of Core Weave AI Object Storage’s (CAIOS) security posture as we serve workloads within compute clusters, between datacenters, and even across clouds. You will lead the development of CAIOS’ authentication, authorization, key management, and encryption functions. You will work across engineering and infrastructure teams to protect Core Weave’s customers at our edge and the world’s most demanding AI workloads at our core.

You will help guide the future of Core Weave’s storage platform by building cloud‑scale systems that deliver secure, reliable, and segment‑leading storage solutions.

• Build a world class engineering team by hiring and developing the best talent in the industry.
• Have curiosity and hunger to solve very hard system level problems in order to run the world's most demanding and advanced AI workloads.
• Lead the development of CAIOS’ authentication, authorization, key management, and encryption functions.
• Contribute to the development of exabyte‑scale, S3‑compatible object storage optimized for inference and training workloads in diverse customer environments.
• Work with technologies such as RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, SPDK, and distributed file system protocols to optimize storage performance and efficiency.
• Participate in efforts to improve the reliability and observability of our storage stack.
• Help develop metrics and dashboards to provide visibility into storage performance and health.
• Analyze telemetry and system data to drive improvements in throughput, latency, and resilience.
• Work cross‑functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities across the stack.

• 3+ years of experience managing or leading technical teams; 5+ years of hands‑on software or infrastructure engineering, 3+ years of security engineering experience.
• Expertise in storage technologies such as Ceph, Lustre, MinIO, GPUDirect Storage, or similar distributed/cloud storage systems.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, key management, encryption at rest and in flight.
• Expertise in observability systems for metrics, logs, and tracing.
• Experience working on publicly accessible web services at scale.
• Strong understanding of performance tuning, fault tolerance, and change management.
• Experience working in high‑scale, low‑latency environments (preferably in cloud, HPC, or AI/ML infrastructure contexts).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
• Proven ability to attract, retain, and grow world‑class engineering talent.

We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match.

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

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