Senior Systems Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Systems Engineer role is listed in Bellevue, WA; the posting does not specify a remote or hybrid arrangement. The base salary range is $153,000–$204,000 per year. The role supports CoreWeave’s Systems Engineering team, which builds and operates host software and test infrastructure for its GPU fleet. The engineer owns and evolves a Kubernetes-native framework that qualifies host images and infrastructure on physical hardware. The work improves test coverage, reliability, reporting, and CI performance so engineering teams can identify failures and validate systems at fleet scale.

What you'll do

• Own and extend the test framework that boots and validates host configurations on real hardware
• expand qualification coverage into HPC, fabric, Slurm-on-Kubernetes, firmware, and hardware
• improve pipeline speed, hermeticity, boot consistency, resource locking, and flaky-test elimination
• own structured results, storage, dashboards, and triage tools
• explore LLM-supported log triage and failure classification
• collaborate with firmware, kernel, imaging, and HPC teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior systems engineer

bellevue wa

coreweave

systems engineering

test infrastructure

kubernetes

linux

python

rust

hpc

slurm-on-kubernetes

$153,000–$204,000 annual base salary

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave
• life and disability insurance
• FSA and HSA
• tuition reimbursement
• employee stock purchase program
• mental wellness and family-forming support
• paid parental leave
• childcare support
• 401(k) match
• flexible PTO
• catered lunch.

Why this role

The description calls the role a Senior Software Engineer on the Systems Engineering team, while the listing title is Senior Systems Engineer.

About the employer

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