Staff Software Engineer (Storage Control Plane)
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- We’re looking for a Staff Storage Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and operating the control plane for our high-performance AI storage platform
- You’ll help evolve CoreWeave’s storage systems by building reliable, scalable, and high-throughput solutions that power some of the largest and innovative AI workloads in the world
- This role involves close collaboration with teams across infrastructure, compute, and platform to ensure our storage services scale automatically and seamlessly while maximizing performance and reliability
- Design and implement a highly scalable multi-tenant control plane that supports CoreWeave’s growing AI storage and cloud infrastructure needs
- Contribute to the development of exabyte-scale, S3-compatible object storage, distributed file system and integrate dedicated storage clusters into diverse customer environments
- Work with technologies such as RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, SPDK, and distributed filesystems to optimize storage performance and efficiency
- Participate in efforts to improve the reliability, durability, and observability of our storage stack
- Collaborate with operations teams to monitor, analyze, and optimize storage systems using telemetry, metrics, and dashboards to improve performance, latency, and resilience
- Work cross-functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage capabilities across the stack
- Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed, high-performance systems
- Experience with one or more storage protocols (e.g. S3, NFS) and file systems such as Ceph, DAOS, or similar
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architecture
- Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, C++, or Rust
- Strong hands-on experience with object storage or distributed filesystems in production environments
- 10+ years of experience working in storage systems engineering or infrastructure
- Clear communicator, able to work collaboratively across teams and share technical insights effectively
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed, high-performance environments
- Familiarity with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines (e.g., ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Wondering if you’re a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams – even if you aren’t a 100% skill or experience match. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk