● TALENT ONE MARKET INTELLIGENCE: COREWEAVE
🔥 TALENT LIQUIDITY:
Extremely low. The intersection of deep storage kernel expertise and massive-scale distributed systems is a niche with fewer than 500 qualified individuals globally.
📈 ALPHA SIGNAL:
Storage is the ‘bottleneck of the bottleneck.’ By solving the I/O starvation problem, you become the most critical engineer in the stack. This role is a direct path to high-equity compensation because you are building the foundation that makes the entire AI industry functional.
$280k – $360k Base + Significant RSU Package
85.4/100
Official Role Description: CoreWeave
What You’ll Do:
We’re looking for a Principal Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and operating the data plane for our high-performance AI storage platform. You’ll develop CoreWeave’s storage systems by building reliable, scalable, and high-throughput solutions that power some of the largest and most innovative AI workloads in the world. You will work hands-on to enhance existing storage solutions and develop new storage systems. This role involves close collaboration with teams across infrastructure, compute, and platform to ensure our storage services scale automatically and seamlessly while maximizing performance and reliability.
About the role:
- Design and implement a highly scalable multi-tenant control plane that supports CoreWeave’s growing AI storage and cloud infrastructure needs.
- Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage, distributed file system and integrate dedicated storage clusters into diverse customer environments.
- Work with technologies such as RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, SPDK, and distributed filesystems to optimize storage performance and efficiency.
- Participate in efforts to improve the reliability, durability, and observability of our storage stack.
- Collaborate with operations teams to monitor, analyze, and optimize storage systems using telemetry, metrics, and dashboards to improve performance, latency, and resilience.
- Work cross-functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities across the stack.
- Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed, high-performance systems, especially focusing on low level storage details that improve performance and durability.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PHD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8–10+ years of experience working in storage systems engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with object storage, block storage or distributed filesystems in production environments.
- Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, C, or Rust.
- Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architecture.
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed, high-performance environments.
- Clear communicator, able to work collaboratively across teams and share technical insights effectively.
- Familiarity with the trade offs between HDD and SSD based storage systems.
The base salary range for this role is $206,000 to $303,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).
What We Offer
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.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 100% paid for 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 PTO
- Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
- A casual work environment
- A work culture focused on innovative disruption
Our 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. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.
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, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. 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, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
