Software Engineer, Kubernetes
CoreWeave
New York, NY · $153k–$204k a year · Posted November 2, 2026
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About the job
...with internal and cross-functional teams to ensure platform capabilities meet rigorous operational requirements and customer SLAs. Engineer for resiliency, implementing best practices for redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery across complex distributed systems...