Senior Engineering Manager, Inference

CoreWeave

Senior Engineering Manager leading the inference product team for CoreWeave's AI/ML Platform. Overseeing service reliability and developer experience for AI workloads.

Posted 7/30/2026full-timeCalifornia, New Jersey, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $188,000 - $303,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading engineering teams focused on distributed systems and developer platforms, ensuring high standards of reliability, usability, and performance while fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Highest-signal resume keywords

7+ Years Software Engineering Experience3+ Years Engineering Team ManagementDistributed Compute Services ExpertiseStrong Communication SkillsReliability Engineering Knowledge

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Hard Skills

Distributed SystemsAPI DesignObservabilityReliability EngineeringService OperationsRelease ManagementIncident ResponseOperational ReadinessAutoscaling PatternsTool Call Handling

Soft Skills

LeadershipEmpathy for ML PractitionersCollaborationProblem-SolvingCommunication

Industry Keywords

Service ReliabilityDeveloper ExperienceOperational MaturityCross-Functional CollaborationContinuous Improvement

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and grow the engineering team responsible for evolving and operating the W&B Inference product, focusing on service reliability, orchestration, operational maturity, and developer experience.
Drive execution on roadmap initiatives in close partnership with Product, ensuring that platform capabilities are delivered predictably, robustly, and with measurable customer impact.
Own the engineering processes for the inference productization layer, including incident response, operational readiness, release management, observability, and engineering quality.
Partner with CoreWeave’s infrastructure teams to integrate capabilities from the underlying inference platform into a cohesive, user-facing product.
Guide the design and delivery of application-layer enhancements such as tracing and tool call handling.
Ensure the inference offering meets high standards of reliability, usability, compliance, and performance, balancing trade-offs across cost, operational load, and architectural constraints.
Create clarity in complex, cross-functional environments, ensuring strong communication, aligned priorities, and smooth execution across multiple teams.
Build a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of experience in software engineering, including 3+ years managing or leading engineering teams responsible for distributed systems, developer platforms, or large-scale services.
Fluent in concepts related to distributed compute services, including observability, autoscaling patterns, reliability engineering, API design, and service operations.
Comfortable with competing priorities and making principled trade-offs among latency, reliability, cost, and development velocity.
Skilled at leading engineering teams through ambiguous, multi-stakeholder projects with strong communication and alignment.
Deep empathy for ML practitioners and platform developers, with a drive to improve reliability, reduce friction, and elevate the developer experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
Company-paid Life Insurance
Voluntary supplemental life insurance
Short and long-term disability insurance
Flexible Spending Account
Health Savings Account
Tuition Reimbursement
Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
Paid Parental Leave
Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
401(k) with a generous employer match
Flexible PTO
Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
A casual work environment
A work culture focused on innovative disruption