Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join CoreWeave's Data Engineering team as a Senior Data Engineer with an SRE skillset. You will build and scale data storage and processing infrastructure, manage the data lake and clustered computing services, and optimize frameworks and tools for big data technologies. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring data governance and security. This role requires 5+ years of Kubernetes and Helm experience, hands-on experience with clustered computing technologies, and programming expertise in languages like C++, C#, Java, or Python. CoreWeave offers a competitive salary ($175,000-$205,000), comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and paid parental leave, and a hybrid work environment with flexibility.

Requirements

• Thrive in a fast-paced, complex, work environment and love tackling hard problems
• 5+ years of experience with Kubernetes and Helm, with a deep understanding of container orchestration
• Hands-on experience administering and optimizing clustered computing technologies on Kubernetes, such as Spark, Trino, Flink, Ray, Kafka, StarRocks or similar
• 5+ years of programming experience in C++, C#, Java, or Python
• 3+ years of experience scripting in Python or Bash for automation and tooling
• Strong understanding of data storage technologies, distributed computing, and big data processing pipelines
• Proficiency in data security best practices and managing access in complex systems

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and scale data storage and processing infrastructure to support analytics and data science workloads
• Manage and maintain data lake and clustered computing services, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability
• Build and optimize frameworks and tools to simplify big data technology usage
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align data infrastructure with business goals and requirements
• Ensure data governance and security best practices across all platforms
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance and resource utilization

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
• 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
• Hybrid work environment with flexibility