Staff Software Engineer, Observability

Title: Staff Software Engineer, Observability Location: Warsaw, Poland

What You'll Do:

The Observability team is responsible for deploying and maintaining critical infrastructure at CoreWeave, including our global logging, tracing, and metrics platforms as well as the high-throughput pipelines that feed them. We build the foundational telemetry systems that enable engineering teams across CoreWeave to operate our massive GPU cloud reliably and at scale.

About the role:

As a Staff Software Engineer, Observability, you will lead our efforts in building, maintaining, and optimising highly scalable, reliable, and secure observability systems. You will take ownership of scaling our core logging, tracing, and metrics platforms to support an expanding global data centre footprint. In this role, you will develop and refine monitoring and alerting frameworks, automate interactions with CoreWeave’s compute infrastructure layer, and manage production clusters to ensure development teams follow deployment best practices. Additionally, you will advise engineers across the company on optimal observability usage, lead incident management and post-mortem analyses, and mentor engineers to foster a culture of technical excellence and collaboration.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 7+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or a related technical field.
• Deep technical expertise across all observability pillars (logging, metrics, tracing) using ecosystem tools such as ClickHouse, Elastic, Loki, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana.
• Advanced expertise in Kubernetes, containerisation, and microservices architectures at scale.
• Proven track record of leading production incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortem processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience running, operating, and scaling observability platforms within a cloud provider environment.
• Hands-on experience administering and operating large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.
• Deep understanding of high-throughput data-streaming systems and telemetry ingestion pipelines.

Wondering if you're a good fit?

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.

• You love to: Scale mission-critical platform infrastructure and solve complex, distributed telemetry challenges at hyperscale.
• You're curious about: Pioneering low-latency data streaming and building observability systems that effortlessly keep pace with rapid fleet growth.
• You're an expert in: Mentoring engineers, setting operational standards, and advising cross-functional teams on reliability best practices.

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 take-off, the organisation'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!

Compensation

The starting salary will be determined by job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and the 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).