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CoreWeave is seeking a Director of Engineering, Media & Entertainment (M&E) to lead the development of next-generation cloud platforms and tools that power modern content creation workflows. This role will drive the engineering strategy and execution for solutions that support visual effects (VFX), animation, rendering, and post-production pipelines used by studios, artists, and creative teams worldwide.

As a senior engineering leader, you will build and lead high-performing engineering teams responsible for designing scalable infrastructure, developer tools, and user-facing systems that enable creative professionals to run complex production workloads in the cloud. You will collaborate closely with product, design, infrastructure, and customer teams to translate real-world production workflows into reliable, high-performance software platforms.

This role combines deep engineering leadership with domain expertise in M&E workflows, ensuring that the platform delivers exceptional performance, reliability, and usability for demanding creative workloads.

About this role:

Leadership & Strategy

• Build and scale high-performing engineering teams focused on cloud platforms for media production workloads including rendering, simulation, and content processing.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration.
• Define and execute the long-term engineering strategy for Media & Entertainment products and services.
• Partner with Product and Design leaders to translate industry workflows and customer needs into scalable platform capabilities.
• Establish engineering best practices for reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Drive roadmap alignment between engineering initiatives and strategic business objectives.

The role will involve leading teams responsible for core platform capabilities, including APIs, automation, and cloud orchestration layers that enable customers to provision and manage compute resources at scale. 

Technical Leadership

• Lead the design and development of scalable backend services, APIs, and developer interfaces that power M&E cloud workflows.
• Build platforms that support demanding workloads such as rendering, asset processing, and distributed compute pipelines.
• Drive architecture decisions for cloud-native systems leveraging technologies such as Kubernetes, distributed services, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ensure the platform enables self-service provisioning, automation, and repeatable workflows for production pipelines. 
• Establish engineering standards around performance, scalability, and security for enterprise-grade SaaS/PaaS systems.
• Oversee system reliability and operational readiness through clear SLOs, monitoring, and runbook-driven on-call practices.

Product & Workflow Collaboration

• Work closely with product leadership to define technical requirements aligned with real customer workflows in animation, VFX, and media production.
• Engage directly with studios, artists, and technical directors to understand pipeline challenges and incorporate feedback into product development.
• Translate industry needs into clear engineering priorities and technical roadmaps.
• Guide development teams through product milestones including specification, development, testing, and release.
• Ensure engineering efforts balance customer requirements, technical feasibility, and business goals.

Customer and industry collaboration is critical in identifying workflow needs and transforming t