Engineering Manager, Kubernetes Infrastructure (Bare Metal)
CoreWeave · Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA
Posted about a month ago · $182,000 to $242,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 33 days CoreWeave's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 94% of CoreWeave's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at CoreWeave
- low 0 stale, 8 reposted of 293 open
- Hiring momentum
- 403 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from CoreWeave's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for CoreWeave.
About this role
As an Engineering Manager for Kubernetes Infrastructure at CoreWeave, you will lead a team focused on building and operating Kubernetes infrastructure on bare metal. Your responsibilities will include setting clear goals, improving operational excellence, and fostering cross-functional collaboration while ensuring the reliability and scalability of systems that support high-performance AI and ML workloads.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 3/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of CoreWeave as an employer.
What you need
- Experience managing an infrastructure, platform, or SRE-oriented engineering team
- Strong technical depth in Kubernetes, distributed systems, and production infrastructure
- Experience operating Kubernetes in complex environments, ideally including bare metal, hybrid, or highly performance-sensitive systems
- Familiarity with cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, upgrades, node operations, observability, and reliability engineering
- Track record of improving team execution, engineering quality, and operational maturity
- Experience leading incident response cultures and driving follow-through on reliability improvements
Nice to have
- Experience with GPU-heavy, HPC, or ML infrastructure environments
- Experience with bare-metal infrastructure, server lifecycle operations, or low-level systems troubleshooting
- Familiarity with Kubernetes networking, storage, and security primitives in production
- Experience building internal platform products used by other engineering teams or external customers
- Experience with infrastructure automation using tools such as Go, Python, controllers/operators, or configuration management systems
What you get
- 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
Worth weighing
- The role involves managing a team in a high-performance computing environment, which may require handling complex challenges.
- The position emphasizes hands-on leadership, which may not suit candidates looking for purely strategic roles.
- The company is in a hyper-growth stage, which could mean a fast-paced and potentially chaotic work environment.
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Listed by CoreWeave on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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