Software Engineer, Gateway & Networking Infrastructure
CoreWeave · New York, NY
Posted about 3 months ago · $182,000 to $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 Engineer on the Cloud Platform API team at CoreWeave, you will design and operate the API and Kubernetes gateways that serve as the control plane for the platform. Your responsibilities include managing large-scale networking migrations, ensuring high availability and low latency, and mentoring other engineers. You will also set technical direction, handle routing and observability, and collaborate across teams to enhance customer-facing features.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- 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
- Production experience writing Go
- Deep experience with networking and traffic infrastructure: L4/L7 load balancing, reverse proxies (Envoy, HAProxy, or NGINX), or API gateways
- Deep Kubernetes experience, ideally with the Gateway API or Ingress, operators and controllers, and running multiple clusters
- Strong grounding in TLS/mTLS and edge and authentication concerns, plus performance tuning of network-facing services
- Track record of setting technical direction and leading initiatives across teams
- Clear communication about technical contributions and cross-team collaboration
Nice to have
- Experience leading a large-scale infrastructure migration end to end
- Experience operating a high-traffic edge or gateway as a production choke point: monitoring, runbooks, and incident response
- Experience with certificate issuance and rotation (for example, via Vault) and with multi-zone or federated control planes
- Interest in a technical-leadership or engineering-management path
- 10+ years of experience building and operating backend 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
- No specific mention of remote work options
- The role involves high-stakes infrastructure management with potential for significant impact on customer experience
- The position is on a technical-leadership track, which may appeal to those looking for career advancement
Summarised from CoreWeave's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by CoreWeave on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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