Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Storage
CoreWeave · San Francisco, CA / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA
Posted about 3 months ago · $182,000 - $242,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days CoreWeave's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 94% of CoreWeave's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at CoreWeave
- high 289 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
- 2026-10-23
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 a Senior Specialist Field Engineer for Storage at CoreWeave, you will focus on optimizing storage solutions for AI workloads, ensuring that customers have reliable access to shared file storage, object storage, and dedicated storage systems. Your role involves designing storage architectures, troubleshooting complex issues, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to enhance storage offerings based on real-world feedback. You will also lead technical overviews and workshops for customers, contributing to their understanding and effective use of the storage systems.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- 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
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years building or operating large-scale storage systems
- Solid working knowledge of NFS (v3 and v4) and S3-compatible object storage
- Hands-on experience with a distributed or parallel filesystem such as VAST, WEKA, Lustre, or Spectrum Scale
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes storage: CSI drivers, PVs, PVCs, and StorageClasses
- Very comfortable benchmarking with tools like fio and interpreting results
Nice to have
- Debugging NFS over TCP at scale
- Experience with storage for AI workloads
- Diagnosing failures that only show up at scale
- Comfortable reading storage system source code
- Contributions to storage open source or published work on filesystem design
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
- No specific mention of remote work options
- Role involves occasional travel for customer workshops
- The position requires access to export controlled information, which may limit applicant eligibility
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Listed by CoreWeave on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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