Staff Software Engineer- AI Workload Orchestration

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer (IC5) on the AI Workload Orchestration Platform team, you will act as a technical leader for CoreWeave’s Kubernetes-native orchestration strategy for AI workloads.

• Own the technical vision and architecture for major portions of the AI Workload Orchestration Platform
• Design scalable, reliable orchestration primitives for AI workloads across multiple schedulers and runtimes
• Lead cross-team architecture reviews and drive alignment across infrastructure, CKS, and managed inference teams
• Define platform standards for reliability, observability, capacity management, and operational excellence
• Identify and resolve systemic performance, scalability, and fairness issues across large GPU clusters

What they're looking for

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in distributed systems or cloud platforms
• Strong proficiency in Go and experience designing large-scale, long-lived production systems
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals, scheduling mechanisms, and controller-based architectures
• Demonstrated experience designing or evolving orchestration, scheduling, or resource-management platforms
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across teams without direct authority

Tech stack

• Kubernetes
• Go
• Ray