Senior Engineer, Storage Control Plane

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

What You'll Do:

We're looking for a Senior Storage Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and operating the control plane for our high-performance AI storage platform. You'll help evolve Core Weave's storage systems by building reliable, scalable, and high-throughput solutions that power some of the largest and innovative AI workloads in the world. This role involves close collaboration with teams across infrastructure, compute, and platform to ensure our storage services scale automatically and seamlesslywhile maximizing performance and reliability.

About the role:

* Design and implement a highly scalable multi-tenant control plane that supports Core Weave's growing AI storage and cloud infrastructure needs.

* Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage, distributed file system and integrate dedicated storage clusters into diverse customer environments.

* Work with technologies such as RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, RoCE, Infini Band, SPDK, and distributed file systems to optimize storage performance and efficiency.

* Participate in efforts to improve the reliability, durability, and observability of our storage stack.

* Collaborate with operations teams to monitor, analyze, and optimize storage systems using telemetry, metrics, and dashboards to improve performance, latency, and resilience.

* Work cross-functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities across the stack.

* Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed, high-performance systems.

Who You Are:

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

* 6-10 years of experience working in storage systems engineering or infrastructure.

* Strong hands-on experience with object storage or distributed file systems in production environments.

* Experience with one or more storage protocols (e.g. S3, NFS) and file systems such as Ceph, DAOS, or similar.

* Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, C, or Rust.

* Familiarity with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines (e.g., Click House, Prometheus, Grafana).

* Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architecture.

* Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed, high-performance environments.

* Clear communicator, able to work collaboratively across teams and share technical insights effectively.

Wondering if you're a good fit? 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. Here are a few qualities we've found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we'd love to talk.

The base salary range for this role is $139,000 to $204,000. 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).

What We Offer

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 -…