Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration
Core
Designing and operating large-scale distributed systems to advance CoreWeave's orchestration platform (SUNK/Slurm on Kubernetes) for AI training and inference at scale.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration
Builds
Kubernetes-native foundation (SUNK) and managed services for AI workloads
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, AI/ML, Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Go, Kubernetes internals, Slurm internals, distributed systems design, cloud-native development, architectural direction, cross-team influence, mentorship
Preferred skills
Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, Argo Workflows, GPU-based applications, ML pipelines, scheduling concepts (quota enforcement, pre-emption, scaling), SLOs, reliability practices, AI infrastructure workloads
Technologies
Kubernetes, Slurm, Go, Ray, Kubeflow, Kueue, Istio, Knative, Argo Workflows
Responsibilities
Define architectural direction for the orchestration platform, own critical parts of the platform and managed services, drive cross-org initiatives in scheduling and scaling, mentor senior engineers, establish org-wide best practices in reliability and observability
Seniority
Staff, technical leadership & strategy