CoreWeave
Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Kubernetes
$182K–$242K
San Francisco. CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco. CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA
Bellevue, WA
San Francisco, California, United States
Sunnyvale, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years building or operating large-scale distributed systems as a platform, systems, or software engineer, or in a deeply technical Kubernetes-focused field role.
- Education
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Position requires access to export-controlled information. Applicants must be a U.S. person, eligible to access the information without export authorization, or eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required authorization; CoreWeave may decline to pursue licensing.
About the job
Designs and troubleshoots large-scale Kubernetes environments so customers can run AI training and inference, while bringing field insights to product and engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Design Kubernetes architectures and troubleshoot cluster issues across control plane, compute, networking, and storage.
- Identify product gaps for customer workloads and work with engineering teams to address them.
- Lead customer technical overviews, proofs of concept, and workshops; travel occasionally.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Production experience writing and operating Kubernetes operators or controllers in Go or Rust, using CRDs.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals, admission control and policy, RBAC, and ServiceAccounts.
- Hands-on experience with Helm, GitOps delivery, and observability using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry.
Nice to have
- GPU scheduling and resource management, large-scale control-plane operations, or Slurm/batch schedulers for AI training.
- Image and artifact supply-chain security, or contributions/publications related to Kubernetes or CNCF projects.
Pay
USD 182,000 to USD 242,000 base salary
Tools
Kubernetes, Go, Rust, CRDs, Kyverno, Argo CD, Flux, Prometheus
AI focus
Supports customer AI training and inference on large GPU-based Kubernetes clusters.
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