CoreWeave
Software Engineer, Gateway & Networking Infrastructure
$182K–$242K
New York, NY +1 · Full-time · Posted Jul 13, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Manhattan, New York, United States - Experience
- 7+ years building and operating backend systems; 10+ years also listed under Preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Position requires access to export-controlled information. Applicants must meet one of the stated U.S. person, export-access eligibility, or export-authorization eligibility conditions; CoreWeave may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Designs, operates, and sets technical direction for the API and Kubernetes gateways that carry traffic to CoreWeave’s control plane.
What you'll do
- Own gateway stacks and CRDs, including routing, TLS/mTLS, rate limiting, and observability.
- Lead large-scale networking migrations and manage proxying, load balancing, global routing, failover, and performance.
- Set engineering standards, mentor engineers, lead post-mortems, and coordinate across teams.
What they ask for
- Production experience writing Go.
- Deep experience with networking and traffic infrastructure, such as L4/L7 load balancing, reverse proxies, or API gateways.
- Deep Kubernetes experience and strong grounding in TLS/mTLS, edge and authentication concerns, and performance tuning of network-facing services.
- Track record of setting technical direction and leading cross-team initiatives; clear communication and collaboration.
Nice to have
- Experience leading a large-scale infrastructure migration or operating a high-traffic production gateway, including monitoring, runbooks, and incident response.
- Experience with certificate issuance and rotation (e.g., Vault) and multi-zone or federated control planes; interest in a technical-leadership or engineering-management path.
Pay
USD 182,000 to USD 242,000 base salary
Tools
Go, Envoy, HAProxy, NGINX, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Gateway API, TLS/mTLS, Vault
AI focus
The role supports infrastructure for an AI cloud platform; no direct AI development work is stated.
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