Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) – AI Workload Orchestration

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer II (IC4) on the AI Workload Orchestration Platform team, you will help build and operate CoreWeave’s Kubernetes-native platform for admitting, scheduling, and operating AI workloads at scale.

• Design, build, and operate Kubernetes-native services for AI workload orchestration and scheduling
• Own one or more platform components end-to-end, including design, implementation, testing, and on-call support
• Improve scheduling latency, cluster utilization, and workload reliability through metrics-driven engineering
• Contribute to architectural discussions across services and influence design decisions within the platform
• Work closely with adjacent teams (CKS, infrastructure, managed inference) to ensure clean interfaces and integrations

What they're looking for

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering
• Strong experience building production systems in Go (Python or C++ a plus)
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, APIs, controllers, and operating services in production
• Experience working with scheduling, resource management, or quota-based systems
• Proven ability to improve system reliability and performance using data and operational metrics

Tech stack

• Kubernetes
• Python
• C++
• Ray
• Kubeflow