Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration

Job overview

The Staff Software Engineer, Cluster Orchestration role is listed onsite in Sunnyvale, CA. The base salary range is $185,000–$275,000 per year. CoreWeave provides cloud infrastructure and technology for AI training and inference workloads. The engineer shapes the long-term strategy and architecture of the orchestration platform, owning critical platform components and driving cross-organization work in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling. The role helps ensure workloads run reliably and efficiently across large GPU clusters while mentoring engineers and advancing reliability practices.

What you'll do

• Define architectural direction for the orchestration platform
• own critical platform components and managed services
• drive cross-organization initiatives in scheduling, quota enforcement, and scaling
• mentor senior engineers
• establish reliability and observability practices
• develop orchestration capabilities for AI workloads using the Kubernetes-native platform, including SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes).

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff software engineer

cluster orchestration

distributed systems

kubernetes

slurm

go

ai infrastructure

gpu clusters

sunnyvale ca

coreweave

$185k–$275k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance fully paid by CoreWeave
• company-paid life insurance
• supplemental 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

Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, production distributed-systems experience, expertise in Slurm/Kubernetes internals, and advanced Go proficiency. The role includes a discretionary bonus and equity awards based on eligibility.

About the employer

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