Staff Engineer, Storage Engine

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability.

Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. com .

What You’Ll Do

: The Storage Engine Team at CoreWeave is responsible for the product capabilities and data plane function of CoreWeave’s managed storage products. We build reliable, scalable storage solutions with segment leading performance. Storage engine works with engineering teams across infrastructure, compute, and platform to ensure our storage services meet the needs of the world’s most demanding AI workloads.

About The Role

: Design and Implement distributed storage solutions to support scaling data intensive AI workloads. Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage and integrate dedicated storage clusters into diverse customer environments. Work with technologies such as RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, and distributed filesystems protocols such as NFS or FUSE to optimize storage performance and efficiency.

Lead efforts to improve the reliability, durability, security, and observability of our storage stack. Collaborate with operations teams to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve storage systems in production environments. Set the bar for developing metrics and dashboards to provide visibility into storage performance and health.

Analyze telemetry and system data to drive improvements in throughput, latency, and resilience. Work cross-functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities across the stack. Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed, high-performance systems.

Who You Are

: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 8–10+ years of experience working in storage systems engineering or infrastructure. Strong hands-on experience with object storage or distributed filesystems in production environments.

g. S3, NFS) and file systems such as Ceph, DAOS, or similar. Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, C, or Rust.

Proficiency leveraging AI tools to augment software development. , ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana). Experience working with cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architectures.

Wondering if you’re a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning.

Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values: Be Curious at Your Core Act Like an Owner Empower Employees Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences Achieve More Together We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take off, the growth opportunities within the organization are constantly expanding.

You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us! The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $275,000.