Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orch (Non SUNK)

Role description

Role Overview

As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Workload Orchestration Platform team, you will act as a technical leader for CoreWeave’s Kubernetes-native orchestration strategy for AI workloads. You will define and evolve the architecture for how AI workloads are admitted, scheduled, and governed across large GPU clusters using frameworks such as Kueue, Volcano, and Ray.

What You Will Do

Own the technical vision and architecture for major portions of the AI Workload Orchestration Platform, design scalable, reliable orchestration primitives for AI workloads across multiple schedulers and runtimes, and lead cross-team architecture reviews and drive alignment across infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires strong systems thinking, cross-team influence, and a long-term view of platform scalability, reliability, and developer experience. You will mentor senior engineers and grow technical leadership within the organization, represent the platform in technical reviews, and influence broader CoreWeave platform strategy.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Deep expertise in distributed systems or cloud platforms
• Strong proficiency in Go
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals, scheduling mechanisms, and controller-based architectures
• Demonstrated experience designing or evolving orchestration, scheduling, or resource-management platforms
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across teams without direct authority
• Strong operational mindset with experience owning mission-critical systems at scale

Benefits

• Family-level Medical Insurance
• Family-level Dental Insurance
• Generous Pension Contribution
• Life Assurance at 4x Salary
• Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Tuition Reimbursement