CoreWeave
Senior Software Engineer II, Inference
CoreWeave, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94087
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CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave 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, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability.
What You’ll Do Senior engineers are area owners who lead designs, raise engineering standards, and deliver measurable improvements to latency, throughput, and reliability across multiple services. You’ll partner with product, orchestration, and hardware teams to evolve our Kubernetes-native inference platform and meet strict P99 SLAs at scale.
About The Role
Lead design reviews and drive architecture within the team; decompose multi-service work into clear milestones.
Define and own SLIs/SLOs; ensure post-incident actions land and reliability improves release-over-release.
Implement advanced optimizations (e.g., micro-batch schedulers, speculative decoding, KV-cache reuse) and quantify impact.
Strengthen incident posture: capacity planning, autoscaling policy, graceful degradation, rollback/traffic-shift strategies.
Mentor IC1/IC2 engineers; review cross-team designs and elevate coding/testing standards.
Own an area spanning multiple services and teams (e.g., request routing & adaptive scheduling, cost-per-token analytics, GPU resource isolation).
Qualifications
~5–8 years industry experience building distributed systems or cloud services.
Strong coding in Python or Go (C++ a plus) and deep familiarity with networked systems and performance.
Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes at production scale, CI/CD, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Practical knowledge of inference internals: batching, caching, mixed precision (BF16/FP8), streaming token delivery.
Proven track record improving tail latency (P95/P99) and service reliability through metrics‑driven work.
Preferred
Contributions to inference frameworks (vLLM, Triton, TensorRT‑LLM, Ray Serve, TorchServe).
Experience with CUDA kernels, NCCL/SHARP, RDMA/NUMA, or GPU interconnect topologies.
Leading multi‑team initiatives or partnering with customers on mission‑critical launches.
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.
Why CoreWeave? At CoreWeave, 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
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
Base Salary & Benefits Base salary range: $165,000 to $242,000. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program.
Benefits include:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 100% paid by CoreWeave
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 Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Mental wellness benefits through Spring Health
Family‑forming support provided by Carrot
Paid parental leave
Flexible, full‑service childcare support with Kinside
401(k) with a generous employer match
Flexible PTOCatered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
A casual work environment
A work culture focused on innovative disruption
Workplace While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets.
Legal Information California Consumer Privacy Act – California applicants only.
CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.
Export Control Compliance This position requires access to export‑controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicants must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, asylee) or eligible to access the export‑controlled information without required export authorization. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
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CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave 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, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability.
What You’ll Do Senior engineers are area owners who lead designs, raise engineering standards, and deliver measurable improvements to latency, throughput, and reliability across multiple services. You’ll partner with product, orchestration, and hardware teams to evolve our Kubernetes-native inference platform and meet strict P99 SLAs at scale.
About The Role
Lead design reviews and drive architecture within the team; decompose multi-service work into clear milestones.
Define and own SLIs/SLOs; ensure post-incident actions land and reliability improves release-over-release.
Implement advanced optimizations (e.g., micro-batch schedulers, speculative decoding, KV-cache reuse) and quantify impact.
Strengthen incident posture: capacity planning, autoscaling policy, graceful degradation, rollback/traffic-shift strategies.
Mentor IC1/IC2 engineers; review cross-team designs and elevate coding/testing standards.
Own an area spanning multiple services and teams (e.g., request routing & adaptive scheduling, cost-per-token analytics, GPU resource isolation).
Qualifications
~5–8 years industry experience building distributed systems or cloud services.
Strong coding in Python or Go (C++ a plus) and deep familiarity with networked systems and performance.
Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes at production scale, CI/CD, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Practical knowledge of inference internals: batching, caching, mixed precision (BF16/FP8), streaming token delivery.
Proven track record improving tail latency (P95/P99) and service reliability through metrics‑driven work.
Preferred
Contributions to inference frameworks (vLLM, Triton, TensorRT‑LLM, Ray Serve, TorchServe).
Experience with CUDA kernels, NCCL/SHARP, RDMA/NUMA, or GPU interconnect topologies.
Leading multi‑team initiatives or partnering with customers on mission‑critical launches.
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.
Why CoreWeave? At CoreWeave, 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
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
Base Salary & Benefits Base salary range: $165,000 to $242,000. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program.
Benefits include:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 100% paid by CoreWeave
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 Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Mental wellness benefits through Spring Health
Family‑forming support provided by Carrot
Paid parental leave
Flexible, full‑service childcare support with Kinside
401(k) with a generous employer match
Flexible PTOCatered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
A casual work environment
A work culture focused on innovative disruption
Workplace While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets.
Legal Information California Consumer Privacy Act – California applicants only.
CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.
Export Control Compliance This position requires access to export‑controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicants must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, asylee) or eligible to access the export‑controlled information without required export authorization. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
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