Senior Software Engineer – API Platform and Client Tooling

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer – API Platform and Client Tooling role is listed as onsite in Livingston, NJ. The base salary range is $153,000–$204,000 per year. The role supports CoreWeave’s Cloud Platform API team, which builds API services and tooling used by engineering teams across the company. The engineer designs and builds a code-generation pipeline that turns a single protocol definition into Go SDKs, command-line tools, and Terraform resources. The role also advances API standards, compatibility, developer experience, and cross-team API design support.

What you'll do

• Own components of the API services framework and generated artifacts
• build proto-driven code generation for Go SDKs, CWIC commands, and Terraform resources
• design API contracts with schema evolution and backward compatibility
• help enforce API standards in CI
• improve CLI, SDK, and Terraform developer experience
• collaborate on authentication and identity contracts
• advise teams on API design
• drive technical initiatives and mentor engineers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

api platform

client tooling

go

code generation

sdks

terraform

livingston nj

coreweave

full-time

$153k–$204k/year

developer experience

api design

401(k) match

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave
• life and disability insurance
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• tuition reimbursement
• employee stock purchase program
• paid parental leave
• 401(k) match
• flexible PTO
• childcare support
• mental wellness benefits
• discretionary bonus and equity awards, subject to eligibility.

Why this role

The team’s goal is for one proto definition to generate every client surface and release it when the API ships.

About the employer

CoreWeave is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.