Principal Engineer - Observability

About this Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Principal Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and operations of our Observability product. In this role, you will help shape the vision and direction on how customers monitor, troubleshoot and run their AI workloads effectively, at scale. You will have direct access to customers and work closely with engineering stakeholders across multiple teams to advance the development of our unified Observability experience across CoreWeave products.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the strategy and implementation for Observability, ensuring alignment with business goals and performance objectives.
• Design and implement advanced solutions, including low-latency, high-scale Observability pipelines across all products.
• Build solutions that offer insights to customers for rapid troubleshooting of their AI workloads.
• Champion initiatives to improve the reliability, durability, and self-healing capabilities of Observability metrics, and assume operational responsibilities.
• Help shape customer experience by promoting unparalleled visibility into our systems’ performance and reliability with customer facing metrics and dashboards.
• Analyze telemetry for production systems to identify opportunities for improvement in performance and reliability.
• Develop operational review practices for storage engineering to assess performance against targets and iterating on those targets.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insights on storage industry trends and advocating for investments in storage technologies.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure storage solutions align with evolving project requirements and technical architecture.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices in product engineering, fostering a customer-focused approach to systems design and technical excellence.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, with a focus on reliability and scale.
• Proven experience leading storage product engineering projects and building products to address customer needs.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, C, Rust).
• Good understanding of distributed observability systems such as ClickHouse for telemetry at scale.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing infrastructure using Kubernetes, scalable architectures, and automation.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize problem statements from interactions with customers and design solutions given ambiguous requirements.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey storage engineering strategies and practices to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Prior experience with building Observability solutions is a plus.

The base salary range for this role is $206,000 to $303,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company-paid Life Insurance 
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance 
• Short and long-term disability insurance 
• Flexib