Principal Engineer - Observability

What You’ll Do:

We are looking for a highly experienced and strategic Principal Engineer, Observability to lead the architecture, development, and operations of our Observability platform. In this role, you will define how customers monitor, troubleshoot, and operate their AI workloads at scale on CoreWeave.

You will work directly with customers and partner closely with engineering leaders across multiple teams to drive a unified Observability experience across CoreWeave products—spanning metrics, logs, traces, and customer-facing insights.

About the role:

• Lead the Observability strategy and roadmap, ensuring clear alignment with business goals, product direction, and performance/SLA objectives
• Design and implement low-latency, high-scale telemetry pipelines and data stores solutions that power observability across all CoreWeave products
• Build customer-facing experiences—dashboards, alerts, and workflows—that enable rapid troubleshooting and deep insight into AI workloads and platform health
• Drive reliability, durability, and self-healing across the Observability stack, owning key services in production and setting a high bar for operational excellence
• Shape customer experience for visibility by defining standards for metrics, SLOs, and dashboards that expose system performance and reliability in a clear, actionable way
• Analyze production telemetry to identify and prioritize improvements in performance, reliability, and efficiency across the platform
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, bringing perspective on observability trends and advocating for the right long-term technology investments
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure Observability is deeply integrated into evolving architectures, APIs, and customer features
• Mentor and uplevel engineers across teams, promoting best practices in observability, distributed systems, and customer-focused product engineering

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 15+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems at scale, with a strong track record of reliability-focused engineering
• Proven experience leading Observability platform engineering initiatives and delivering products that directly address customer needs
• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, or Rust, and comfort working in large-scale production environments
• Deep understanding of distributed observability systems and telemetry pipelines (e.g., ClickHouse or similar technologies for telemetry at scale)
• Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure—Kubernetes, scalable architectures, automation, and modern CI/CD and deployment practices
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to synthesize ambiguous customer and system signals into clear problem statements and designs
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, able to articulate observability strategies, trade-offs, and best practices to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Prior experience building end-to-end Observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting) in production environments

Preferred:

• Experience with modern AI platforms and workloads (e.g., large-scale training/ inference, GPU-based infrastructure, MLOps tooling) is a plus

Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast!  We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values: 

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!

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).