Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orch (SUNK)

Role description

Role Overview

As part of the Cluster Orchestration team, you will play a key role in advancing CoreWeave’s orchestration platform including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes) and beyond. This is an opportunity to help shape one of the most critical layers of the AI cloud: ensuring workloads run seamlessly, reliably, and efficiently across massive GPU clusters.

What You Will Do

As a Staff Engineer (IC5), you will be a technical leader shaping the long-term strategy for CoreWeave’s orchestration platform. You’ll define architectural direction, own critical parts of the orchestration platform and other managed services, and drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling at hyperscale.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You love defining long-term architecture for systems at global scale. You’re curious about orchestration beyond SUNK and how to evolve it for next-generation AI. You’re an expert at mentorship, architecture, and operational excellence across teams.

Requirements

• 8–12 years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven track record designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
• Deep expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals and cloud-native development
• Advanced proficiency in Go and distributed systems design
• Experience setting technical direction and influencing cross-team architecture
• Ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate organizational standards

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