Senior Manager, Observability

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 in March 2025.

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The Observability Engineering organization at Core Weave is responsible for the platforms and practices that help engineers understand, operate, and improve production systems s team owns and evolves the foundations for metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and observability reliability, enabling teams to detect issues quickly, troubleshoot complex distributed systems, and operate AI infrastructure with confidence. As Core Weave continues to scale, observability plays a critical role in delivering reliable platform experiences, improving engineering velocity, and maintaining operational excellence across a rapidly growing cloud environment.

Core Weave is seeking a Senior Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. In this role, you will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure. You will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility.

This role combines technical leadership, operational ownership, and team management to ensure observability platforms scale with business and customer needs.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale
• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads
• Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting in distributed systems
• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design
• Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers
• Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and cost
• Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption
• Experience hiring and managing engineering teams

• Experience with Open Telemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing tools
• Experience operating cloud‑native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure
• Familiarity with capacity planning for high‑ingest telemetry systems
• Experience scaling platforms in high‑growth environments

We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams. If the following describes you, we’d love to talk.

• You love solving complex systems problems across infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity
• You’re curious about improving observability, debugging workflows, and large-scale distributed systems
• You’re an expert in balancing scalability, reliability, and cost in production environments

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.

• 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…