Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience
AI summary of the role
CoreWeave seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy for its Developer Experience platform, owning the hardest problems in developer productivity across CI, build, test, delivery, artifact management, and agentic tooling.
What you’ll do
- Define and drive the technical strategy for the DevEx platform, setting long-term architectural direction across CI, test, delivery, artifact management, and agentic developer tooling.
- Solve the highest-complexity developer productivity problems, identifying systemic bottlenecks and designing solutions that operate reliably across 40+ data centers.
- Lead the agentic developer platform from a technical standpoint, evolving MCP servers, tool integration, and agent-accessible DevEx APIs.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives across DevEx, infrastructure, security, SRE, and product engineering to align on platform direction and establish engineering standards.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and owning production developer platforms, build infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to define and execute multi-year technical strategies across complex, cross-team domains.
- Deep systems design expertise with strong opinions on API design, service architecture, and platform abstractions.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages with a track record of shipping large-scale production services in cloud-native environments.
Technologies
Go · Python · Kubernetes · IaaC · CI · Bazel · Buildkite · MCP · LLM · agentic frameworks
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
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. Learn more at www.coreweave.com. About the Team CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™ — the infrastructure that the world's leading AI labs, researchers, and enterprises depend on. The Developer Experience (DevEx) team owns the platform, services, and systems that enable every engineer at CoreWeave to build and ship software faster, more safely, and with greater confidence. Our scope spans the
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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. Learn more at www.coreweave.com. About the Team CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™ — the infrastructure that the world's leading AI labs, researchers, and enterprises depend on. The Developer Experience (DevEx) team owns the platform, services, and systems that enable every engineer at CoreWeave to build and ship software faster, more safely, and with greater confidence. Our scope spans the full developer lifecycle: CI (continuous integration) and build infrastructure, test experience, delivery systems, artifact storage and distribution, internal developer platforms, and the agentic AI tooling that is redefining how engineers move from idea to production. This is a role for a technical leader who operates across team boundaries. You'll own the hardest problems in developer productivity at CoreWeave, by setting the technical strategy for DevEx, removing systemic friction across the [... source excerpt omitted ...] problems at CoreWeave. Identify systemic bottlenecks that span teams, design solutions that operate reliably across 40+ data centers, and drive execution from architecture through production. Lead the agentic developer platform from a technical standpoint. Evolve the architecture of MCP servers, tool integration, and agent-accessible DevEx APIs so that autonomous workflows become a first-class primitive for every engineer at CoreWeave. Drive cross-team technical initiatives. Work across DevEx, infrastructure, security, SRE, and product engineering to align on platform direction, resolve deep architectural trade-offs, and establish engineering standards that raise the bar org-wide [... source excerpt omitted ...] ents to platform resilience, efficiency, and developer trust. What We're Looking For 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant time spent building and owning production developer platforms, build infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems. Demonstrated ability to define and execute multi-year technical strategies across complex, cross-team domains. Deep systems design expertise. You design for correctness, scalability, and long-term maintainability. You have strong opinions on API design, service architecture, and platform abstractions, and you can articulate why. Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages with a track record of shipping large-
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