Staff Software Engineer, Observability
CoreWeave is seeking a highly experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and optimization of scalable, reliable, and secure systems within the Observability team. This team is responsible for deploying and maintaining critical infrastructure, including logging, tracing, and metrics platforms, as well as the pipelines that support them.
In this role, you will lead and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. You will scale logging, tracing, and metrics platforms to support a global datacenter footprint, develop and refine monitoring and alerting to enhance system reliability, advise engineers across CoreWeave on optimal usage of observability systems, automate interactions with CoreWeave's Compute Infrastructure layer, and manage production clusters to ensure development teams follow best practices for deployments.
The ideal candidate will have over 7 years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related field. Deep expertise across all observability pillars using tools like ClickHouse, Elastic, Loki, Victoria Metrics, Prometheus, Thanos, and/or Grafana is essential. Proficiency in Kubernetes, containerization, and microservices architectures, along with a proven track record of leading incident management and post-mortem analysis, is required. Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills are also necessary.
The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $250,000. In addition to a competitive salary, CoreWeave offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by the company, company-paid life insurance, voluntary supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), mental wellness benefits, family-forming support, paid parental leave, flexible childcare support, 401(k) with a generous employer match, flexible PTO, catered lunches, and a casual work environment.
CoreWeave fosters a culture focused on innovative disruption, offering career-defining opportunities for those who excel amid change and challenge. The company supports and encourages an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking, providing an environment that champions collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As the organization continues to grow, employees are surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, offering ample opportunities for learning and professional development.