CoreWeave
Sr. Software Engineer II, Sandboxes & Virtualization
$182K–$242K
Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA
Bellevue, WA
Livingston, New Jersey, United States
Manhattan, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Sunnyvale, California, United States - Experience
- 3+ years in systems, platform, infrastructure, or production engineering at scale.
- Visa sponsorship
- The position requires access to export-controlled information. Applicants must meet one of the stated eligibility pathways: be a U.S. person, be eligible to access the information without export authorization, or be eligible and reasonably likely to obtain required authorization. CoreWeave may decline to pursue export licensing for legitimate business reasons.
About the job
Designs and operates secure, high-performance sandboxed runtime environments for GPU-accelerated Kubernetes workloads in multi-tenant systems.
What you'll do
- Build secure execution environments and GPU-aware scheduling, isolation, and resource management.
- Optimize and benchmark container, VM, I/O, runtime, virtualization, and GPU performance.
- Shape architecture and collaborate across security, platform, and infrastructure teams on runtime isolation and performance standards.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native architectures, including controllers, operators, or scheduling extensions.
- Experience designing, implementing, or operating secure execution environments.
- Experience with lightweight virtualization and sandboxing technologies (e.g., Kata Containers, gVisor, KubeVirt, QEMU).
- Proficiency in Go and Linux internals, plus experience supporting GPU-accelerated workloads in multi-tenant environments.
Nice to have
- Experience building systems for safely executing untrusted or sensitive workloads in shared environments.
- Familiarity with GPU drivers, low-level virtualization or I/O optimization, or runtime security policies and threat models.
Pay
$182,000 to $242,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Kata Containers, gVisor, KubeVirt, QEMU, Go, Linux
AI focus
Supports AI-driven workloads through secure, isolated, GPU-accelerated runtime environments.
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