Principal Software Engineer, Developer Experience
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About the role
This is a principal software engineering leadership role for defining Developer Experience technology across CoreWeave's offices in Livingston, New York, Sunnyvale, and Bellevue. You will shape build, test, delivery, internal tooling, and AI-assisted engineering platforms that help teams ship reliable software at GPU-cloud scale. The role suits a staff-plus engineer with at least ten years of experience designing and owning large distributed systems, especially in Go and Kubernetes environments.
What you’ll do
- Set technical direction for build systems, testing, delivery, developer tooling, and agentic engineering capabilities.
- Improve CI/CD throughput, build and test times, deployment safety, rollback, and release orchestration.
- Design services, APIs, SDKs, and abstractions for internal engineering workflows.
- Lead cross-team initiatives that improve velocity, quality, and reliability.
- Solve distributed-systems problems involving performance, concurrency, scalability, and failure handling.
- Set standards for maintainability, testability, observability, and system design.
- Partner with infrastructure, security, SRE, and product engineering teams.
- Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leadership.
What they’re looking for
- Ten or more years of software engineering experience.
- Strong Go skills and experience shipping production services in cloud-native environments.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field.
- Experience defining technical strategy across complex, cross-team domains.
- Deep expertise in APIs, service architecture, data models, abstractions, scalability, and maintainability.
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge and modern software-delivery experience.
- Experience designing developer-facing platforms, APIs, CLIs, SDKs, or workflow systems.
- A record of organizational influence and mentoring senior engineers.
Nice to have
- Expertise in build systems, test infrastructure, CI/CD, remote execution, caching, artifacts, or developer environments.
- Large-scale distributed services for high-throughput engineering workflows.
- AI-native developer tooling, LLM workflows, agentic frameworks, MCP-style tools, or governed developer agents.
- Kubernetes operators, CRDs, or control-plane development.
- Cloud infrastructure, hyperscale, or HPC experience.
- Container runtimes, OCI standards, or artifact distribution at scale.
What’s on offer
- The role is based in Livingston, New Jersey; New York, New York; Sunnyvale, California; or Bellevue, Washington.
- The base salary is $227,000 to $303,000 per year.
- Additional compensation may include a discretionary bonus and equity awards.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, retirement matching, paid leave, tuition reimbursement, ESPP, wellness support, childcare support, and flexible PTO.
Questions about this role
Where can this Principal Software Engineer role be based?
The listed locations are Livingston, New Jersey; New York, New York; Sunnyvale, California; and Bellevue, Washington.
What is the salary?
The base salary range is $227,000 to $303,000 per year.
How much experience is required?
The posting requires ten or more years of software engineering experience.
Is a degree required?
Yes. A bachelor's degree in a related technical field is listed as required.
What technologies are central to the role?
Go, Kubernetes, distributed systems, cloud-native software, CI/CD, internal developer platforms, and AI-assisted tooling are central.
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