We are looking for a highly experienced and strategic Principal Engineer, Observability to lead the architecture, development, and operations of our Observability platform. In this role, you will define how customers monitor, troubleshoot, and operate their AI workloads at scale on CoreWeave.
You will work directly with customers and partner closely with engineering leaders across multiple teams to drive a unified Observability experience across CoreWeave products—spanning metrics, logs, traces, and customer-facing insights.
What You’ll Do- Lead the Observability strategy and roadmap, ensuring clear alignment with business goals, product direction, and performance/SLA objectives.
- Design and implement low-latency, high-scale telemetry pipelines and data stores solutions that power observability across all CoreWeave products.
- Build customer-facing experiences—dashboards, alerts, and workflows—that enable rapid troubleshooting and deep insight into AI workloads and platform health.
- Drive reliability, durability, and self-healing across the Observability stack, owning key services in production and setting a high bar for operational excellence.
- Shape customer experience for visibility by defining standards for metrics, SLOs, and dashboards that expose system performance and reliability in a clear, actionable way.
- Analyze production telemetry to identify and prioritize improvements in performance, reliability, and efficiency across the platform.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, bringing perspective on observability trends and advocating for the right long-term technology investments.
- Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure Observability is deeply integrated into evolving architectures, APIs, and customer features.
- Mentor and uplevel engineers across teams, promoting best practices in observability, distributed systems, and customer-focused product engineering.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems at scale, with a strong track record of reliability-focused engineering.
- Proven experience leading Observability platform engineering initiatives and delivering products that directly address customer needs.
- Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, or Rust, and comfort working in large-scale production environments.
- Deep understanding of distributed observability systems and telemetry pipelines (e.g., ClickHouse or similar technologies for telemetry at scale).
- Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure—Kubernetes, scalable architectures, automation, and modern CI/CD and deployment practices.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to synthesize ambiguous customer and system signals into clear problem statements and designs.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, able to articulate observability strategies, trade-offs, and best practices to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Prior experience building end-to-end Observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting) in production environments.
- Experience with modern AI platforms and workloads (e.g., large-scale training/ inference, GPU-based infrastructure, MLOps tooling) is a plus
The base salary range for this role is $206,000 to $303,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).
What We Offer
The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
- 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
- Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- 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
Our Workplace
While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.
California Consumer Privacy Act - California applicants only
CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [email protected].
Export Control Compliance
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.
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CoreWeave Sunnyvale, California, USA Office
CoreWeave Sunnyvale, CA Office
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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