Engineering Manager, Systems Engineering

Summary

Join CoreWeave's Kernel HAVOCK Team as a highly skilled manager, reporting to the Director of Compute Architecture. Manage a team responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing CoreWeave’s bare-metal systems, including maintaining a custom Linux kernel and various OS images. Establish and maintain the team’s roadmap, create a hiring plan, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Build and lead distributed teams focused on rapid delivery of high-quality results. Identify opportunities to improve processes and speed through systems and tools. Develop measurable goals for teams and ensure alignment across teams.

Requirements

• A passion for leading emerging teams in a fast-paced environment
• Experience coaching and managing other leaders, and senior level staff that work on challenging issues and solutions that are scalable and executed rapidly
• Prior success in creating processes and developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, sales and product groups
• Enthusiasm for staffing, interviewing, growing and retaining talent
• Passionate about operational excellence
• Excellent communication and organization skills to drive cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional attention to detail and follow-up
• Start-up with growth experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Build and lead distributed teams who are focused on rapidly delivering high quality results
• Identify opportunities to improve process flows and speed through systems and tools
• Develop measurable goals for teams, and ensure alignment across teams to deliver
• Facilitate constructive communication across all teams, and provide coaching and counseling to team leads by mentoring, one-on-one meetings, and regular performance feedback
• Work closely with recruiting team to attract and evaluate talent
• Develop and maintain tooling to build custom Linux kernels and stateless OS images
• Automate packaging of critical components (drivers, microcode, components with out-of-tree patches, etc)
• Serve as a senior point of contact for hardware issue escalation and troubleshooting
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define Linux and OS requirements, specifications, and system architecture
• Analyze and optimize the performance of bare-metal and virtualized systems, identify bottlenecks, and propose improvements for enhanced efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience managing distributed teams of Linux kernel developers / maintainers
• Prior experience working upstream with large open source projects (Linux kernel, kubernetes, etc)

Benefits

• 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
• 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