Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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About the Team

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™ — the infrastructure that the world's leading AI labs, researchers, and enterprises depend on. The Developer Experience (DevEx) team owns the platform, services, and systems that enable every engineer at CoreWeave to build and ship software faster, more safely, and with greater confidence. Our scope spans the full developer lifecycle: CI (continuous integration) and build infrastructure, test experience, delivery systems, artifact storage and distribution, internal developer platforms, and the agentic AI tooling that is redefining how engineers move from idea to production.

This is a role for a technical leader who operates across team boundaries. You'll own the hardest problems in developer productivity at CoreWeave, by setting the technical strategy for DevEx, removing systemic friction across the engineering org, and shaping the agentic developer platform that will define how engineers build software here for years to come.

What You'll Do

• Define and drive the technical strategy for the DevEx platform. Set the long-term architectural direction across CI pipeline infrastructure, test experience, delivery systems, artifact management, and agentic developer tooling, balancing engineering excellence with business priorities and org-wide scale.
• Solve the highest-complexity developer productivity problems at CoreWeave. Identify systemic bottlenecks that span teams, design solutions that operate reliably across 40+ data centers, and drive execution from architecture through production.
• Lead the agentic developer platform from a technical standpoint. Evolve the architecture of MCP servers, tool integration, and agent-accessible DevEx APIs so that autonomous workflows become a first-class primitive for every engineer at CoreWeave.
• Drive cross-team technical initiatives. Work across DevEx, infrastructure, security, SRE, and product engineering to align on platform direction, resolve deep architectural trade-offs, and establish engineering standards that raise the bar org-wide.
• Mentor and develop Senior II engineers. Actively coach ICs, elevate technical decision-making across the team, and build the engineering depth needed to sustain DevEx as CoreWeave scales.
• Proactively reduce systemic risk. Identify technical debt and reliability gaps before they become incidents, and drive durable improvements to platform resilience, efficiency, and developer trust.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant time spent building and owning production developer platforms, build infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Master's degree preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to define and execute multi-year technical strategies across complex, cross-team domains.
• Deep systems design expertise. You design for correctness, scalability, and long-term maintainability. You have strong opinions on API design, service architecture, and platform abstractions, and you can articulate why.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages with a track record of shipping large-scale production services in cloud-native environments.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and IaaC (Infrastructure as Code) at the platform design level. You understand the scheduler, the API machinery, and the extension points.
• Experience with or strong leadership interest in AI-native developer tooling, including agentic frameworks, LLM-integrated developer workflows, or autonomous software development agents.
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions at the organization level, build alignment across teams with competing priorities, and communicate clearly with engineering leadership.
• A track record of growing senior engineers and building technical strength in the teams around you. You are an inspiring leader.

Nice to Have

• Deep expertise in one or more DevEx domains, including large-scale CI, build and test systems (Bazel, Buildkite, remote execution, caching), deployment (GitOps, ArgoCD), artifact storage and distribution, or ephemeral development environment infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating progressive delivery systems at scale, including SLO-based quality gates, automated multi-stage pipeline orchestration, and custom Kubernetes operators, across heterogeneous deployment environments.
• Experience architecting and landing agentic systems at scale, including designing MCP servers, agent governance models, or tool-augmented LLM workflows that operate reliably in production with consistent user-facing value-add.
• Prior experience as a technical lead or system architect on a platform or infrastructure team with broad engineering org impact.

The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $275,000. 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. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

• 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

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

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.

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New Jersey is in the Northeast region (Middle Atlantic division) and has 9,343,809 residents (the 11th largest of the 50 states and DC by population), with a median age of 40.1. Its economy produced about $910,331 million in the latest four quarters (BEA), 11th among states and DC, equal to $97,426 per resident.

Jobs and the labour market

The unemployment rate was 4.2% in 2026M09, which is 32nd lowest of 51 (1st is the lowest). Employers had job openings equal to 3.8% of employment, 31st highest of 51, a measure of how hard it is to hire. The median wage across all occupations is $58,570 a year ($28.16 an hour), 15% above the national median ($58,570 against $50,980).

What people do and what it pays

The occupations with the most jobs in New Jersey are Home Health and Personal Care Aides (117,080 jobs, median $37,090); Cashiers (107,680 jobs, median $34,590); Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand (97,230 jobs, median $39,540); Fast Food and Counter Workers (93,730 jobs, median $34,150); Registered Nurses (92,680 jobs, median $106,500). Among occupations with at least 2,000 jobs, the best paid are Chief Executives (median $310,440); Family Medicine Physicians (median $292,170); Physicians, All Other (median $285,010). Compared with the nation, the state is most specialised in personal care and service (1.3 times the national share of workers) and transportation and material moving (1.2 times the national share of workers).

Cost of living, taxes and workplace rules

Prices are above the national average in New Jersey: the regional price parity is 108.8 against 100 for the whole country (48th lowest of 51). Median gross rent is $1,720 a month and the median household income $103,556, so a year of rent equals 19.9% of income; the median home value is $454,400. The state minimum wage is $15.92 (the higher of state and federal rates applies to most workers). State income tax on wages: Graduated, top rate 10.75%. It is not a right-to-work state, so union contracts can require fees from covered workers. It runs a state paid family and medical leave programme.

People and commuting

23.9% of residents were born abroad and 43.6% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. Among workers, 62.2% drive alone, 8.1% use public transit and 16.8% work from home; 23.4% commute 45 minutes or more.

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