CoreWeave
Senior Engineer, Storage (File & Block)
$182K–$242K
San Francisco, CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA
Bellevue, WA
San Francisco, California, United States
Sunnyvale, California, United States - Experience
- 6–10 years building storage systems, distributed systems, or infrastructure services.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be a U.S. person, eligible to access export-controlled information without required export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain required export authorization. CoreWeave may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Build and operate scalable, multi-tenant file and block storage services on CoreWeave’s hardware fleet, including their data paths, Kubernetes integration, and control planes.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate file and block storage, including NFS, durable block volumes, and shared provisioning control planes.
- Develop Kubernetes storage capabilities such as a CSI driver, dynamic provisioning, resizing, and snapshots; build tenant, quota, QoS, and data-protection controls.
- Improve storage reliability, performance, durability, and observability, and collaborate across teams while mentoring engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6–10 years building storage systems, distributed systems, or infrastructure services.
- Production experience with distributed or networked file systems and/or block storage, and experience with storage data paths and multi-tenant services or control planes.
- Experience building on Kubernetes, including controllers/operators, CRDs, and CSI; proficiency in a systems/back-end language.
Nice to have
- Go strongly preferred; C or Rust a plus.
- Distributed or parallel storage stacks, observability tools, distributed databases, workflow orchestration, gRPC/Protobuf, or high-performance data-path technologies.
Pay
$182,000 to $242,000 USD base salary
Tools
NFS, Kubernetes, CSI, Go, C, Rust, CockroachDB, Temporal
AI focus
Build high-performance file and block storage for AI training and inference workloads and internal stateful services.
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