About the Role
CoreWeave is seeking a Manager, Observability Engineering to lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. In this role, you will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure. You will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility. This role combines technical leadership, operational ownership, and team management to ensure observability platforms scale with business and customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Build, scale, and operate observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines.
- Define strategy and roadmap for observability platforms.
- Drive platform reliability and performance improvements.
- Guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure.
- Partner with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale.
- 2+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads.
- Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, or alerting in distributed systems.
- Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design.
- Experience scaling telemetry systems including storage backends and query layers.
- Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and cost.
- Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption.
- Experience hiring and managing engineering teams.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing tools.
- Experience operating cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments.
- Experience supporting large-scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure.
- Familiarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systems.
- Experience scaling platforms in high-growth environments.
- Ability to bring diversified experiences to the team.
- Ability to solve complex systems problems across infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity.
- Curiosity about improving observability, debugging workflows, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Expertise in balancing scalability, reliability, and cost in production environments.
- Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or eligible to access export controlled information without authorization, or eligible and likely to obtain required authorization.
Skills
- Observability Engineering
- Metrics
- Logs
- Traces
- Telemetry Pipelines
- Software Engineering
- Production Systems
- Engineering Management
- Reliability Engineering
- SLOs
- SLIs
- Incident Management
- Error Budgets
- Fault-Tolerant Design
- Telemetry Systems Scaling
- Distributed Systems
- Performance Engineering
- Platform Adoption
- Hiring
- Managing Engineering Teams
- OpenTelemetry
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Log Aggregation
- Distributed Tracing
- Cloud-Native Infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- AI/ML Infrastructure
- Capacity Planning
- High-Growth Environments
- Systems Problem Solving
- Debugging
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Cost Management
Location
- US
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $182,000 to $242,000
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- Equity awards
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
- 401(k) with a generous employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
- A casual work environment
- A work culture focused on innovative disruption
About the Company
- The Essential Cloud for AI™.
- Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence.
- Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability.
- Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.
- We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking.
- We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems.
- As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding.
- You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too.
Equal Opportunity
- CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
- All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
- As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship.
- If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.
