Senior Manager of Observability

Join CoreWeave, a rapidly growing cloud infrastructure company, as a Senior Manager of Observability Engineering. In this role, you will lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. You will define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure. This position requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale, 4+ years of engineering management experience, and experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and reliability engineering concepts.

• Lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines.
• Define strategy and roadmap, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across observability infrastructure.
• Partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation and production visibility.
• Experience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting in distributed systems
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale
• Experience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and cost
• 4+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leads
• Experience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layers
• Experience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoption
• Knowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant design
• Experience hiring and managing engineering teams
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing tools
• Experience operating cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environments
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructure
• Familiarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systems
• Experience scaling platforms in high-growth environments
• You’re curious about improving observability, debugging workflows, and large-scale distributed systems
• You’re an expert in balancing scalability, reliability, and cost in production environments
• 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
• You love solving complex systems problems across infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity
• This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency